Ronald Reagan: “I think we've proven that that deterrent idea does work.”

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

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

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

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.