Ronald Reagan: “For the Congress to prohibit the issuance of such permits to those who already had obtained leases is unfair.”

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

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

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.

I think he recognizes that their massive buildup has been responsible for the great economic crisis that he faces there in the Soviet Union.