Ronald Reagan: “America will never go back—never.”

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.

I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.