Ronald Reagan: “We are under no illusion that the negotiations will be easy or that progress will come quickly.”

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

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.

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.

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