Ronald Reagan: “Lasting economic recovery had to be built on the solid rock of the American free enterprise system.”

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

I am delighted that later today I'll have the opportunity to welcome President Gorbachev to the United States and extend to him the hospitality and good wishes of the American people.

We've only heard the same as you've heard: that he has been suggesting doing something of this kind.

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.