Ronald Reagan: “America has a genius for great and unselfish deeds.”

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

It was a message of peace.

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