Ronald Reagan: “Competition is fundamental to our free enterprise system.”

America is the shining city on the hill. Welcome all who enter to follow their dreams.

We must and will dedicate ourselves as a Nation to continue this effort, and to stand in solidarity with those who resist, until the blessings of democracy, freedom, and respect for human dignity are assured throughout the world.

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

Each of us can give young people the good example of reading ourselves.