Ronald Reagan: “It is most fitting that all Americans pay tribute to police officers and that we join with them and the families of…”

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.

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.

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

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.