Ronald Reagan: “History will be your valedictorian, not me.”

This is a great day.

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.

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

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