Ronald Reagan: “We resumed here discussions that began a few weeks ago in Washington.”

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

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

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.

These unilateral reductions would, however, give a long-awaited encouragement for our efforts to achieve the genuine balance in conventional forces that would assure greater security and stability in Europe.