The political and economic advantages of carefully negotiated and effectively verifiable arms reductions hold great promise for peace, security, and continued prosperity for our country.

Yes, and we have used that a number of times and are using it now.

There is a choice. We must act to ensure that freedom is not smothered in Nicaragua and to guarantee that these latest promises will be kept in a timely way.

The INF Treaty constitutes a breakthrough in verification, the most far-reaching in the history of arms control.

Well, the State Department has already contacted them about that, and we are making our own feelings clear that they should be working toward a multiracial democracy and not oppressing political organizations there.

We applaud Portugal's desire to modernize its armed forces and to play a more active role in NATO's collective defense efforts.

Democracy is a process, not an end point.

Today new opportunities are opening as the people of the free world are brought closer together by technology and the elimination of political barriers to commerce.

That is, actually involving them in dependency to the place where they never can get out.

The conditions are right. We're already off to a great beginning in export growth.

The key is remembering that it is in our mutual interest to find good solutions.

We have never given up on that.