Ronald Reagan: “I believe we should have less spending, less taxes, and more prosperity.”

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

We have not come this far through lack of strength or any weakness in our resolve, nor has there been anything inevitable about what we've achieved.

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

If we ever closed the door to new Americans, our leadership in the world would soon be lost.