Ronald Reagan: “We must act now and with energy if we're to avoid failing an entire generation.”

We must remain strong and free of illusion.

We understood the key to prosperity was low-inflationary growth, and we achieved it.

I expressed to President Gorbachev my confidence that the work we began together at Geneva in 1985 will continue under the Bush administration.

Let us remember that the Soviet preponderance in military power in Europe remains, an asymmetry that offends our Jeffersonian senses.