Ronald Reagan

There's one more thing we can't let up on: Let's redouble our personal efforts to provide for every child a safe and drug-free learning environment.

We must strive for excellence in education.

The administration supports Senate passage of the 'Federal Aid Highway Act of 1987.'

America's competitiveness in world markets is critical to maintaining and expanding our standard of living and national security.

America isn't finished. Her best days have just begun.

We will not tolerate closed markets, trade barriers, and unfair foreign subsidies that disadvantage American firms in the world marketplace.

Science and technology are fundamental to U.S. competitiveness.

We the people tell the Government what it can do, and it can do only those things listed in that document and no others.

We must teach our children to read, write, and compute in the early grades.

I have established a national goal of assuring American competitive pre-eminence into the 21st century.

America's pre-eminence in research and innovation has long been the envy of the world and a critical source of our national strength.

To achieve this greatness really comes down to just being our best.

Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

The administration opposes the mass transit reauthorization bill.

Together we made a commitment to balance the budget. Now let's keep it.

All CSCE states must fulfill their commitments if we are to realize the promise of a more secure peace with respect for human rights and with greater cooperation among all the peoples of Europe and North America.

Our government remains unrelenting and alert in its search for opportunities to secure the release of our citizens no matter how long that may take.

The credibility of the CSCE process depends on fulfillment of commitments already undertaken.

To give in to terrorist blackmail would only encourage more terrorism.

I am pleased to nominate Alfred Hugh Kingon as our Ambassador to the European Communities.

Those who hold hostages, regardless of nationality, should release them immediately and unconditionally.

Where U.S. citizens are unjustly deprived of their God-given rights, the U.S. Government has an obligation to try to restore those rights.

Americans who ignored this warning clearly did so at their own risk and on their own responsibility.

We can offer them no finer tribute than a pledge from each of us to strive for excellence in whatever we do.

Our attention must not be diverted from the severe abuses of human rights that persist.