Ronald Reagan: “The United States must and will support our friends who are building and defending democracy in Central America.”

Rather than making them or talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems, make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit, and then, while they’re working and earning…

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.

We have walked a long way together to clear a path for peace.

The strength of our nation has never been with the Washington colony but with the American people.