Ronald Reagan: “The extra expense cannot be justified.”

I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience.

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.

We must remain strong and free of illusion.

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