Ronald Reagan: “We must continue to press for a negotiated solution.”

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.

But there's nothing I can say that would make the situation right.

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.