Ronald Reagan

This team showed the world that America stands for fair play and sportsmanlike conduct.

I do hereby proclaim the month of October 1988 as National Down Syndrome Month.

Just to make it to the level of Olympic competition is one of the greatest achievements a human being can attain in a lifetime.

I say, look out world, because the USA is going for the gold again.

Appointment of Juanita Donaghey Duggan to be Executive Secretary of the Domestic Policy Council.

You are all champions.

Main Street America is in better shape today than it's ever been.

The 'misery index' was an election year gimmick.

We have more, much more, affordable housing today than we had 8 years ago.

The American dream of owning a home almost went down for the count.

The typical family's income after taking out inflation has soared more than 10 percent.

By the power vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States of America, I have determined that it is in the interests of the United States to impose certain restrictions on entry into the United States of officers and…

Under us, it's dropped to under 10 percent.

The last time they were in office, the liberals clobbered the American middle class—and we stopped them.

You can't fool all of the people all of the time.

When they say 'family,' they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.'

George Bush is a man of action; he's a man accustomed to command.

Violent crime has fallen significantly since 1981 because we put criminals on notice: Make a false move and the next sound you hear is the clang of a jail cell door closing.

America needs the strength, the vision, and the true grit of George Bush, Jim Martin, and the 'Tiptop Tarheel Seven.'

I do hereby proclaim October 22, 1988, as National Chester F. Carlson Recognition Day.

Let me explain something that perhaps many of you might not be aware of.

When we took office 8 years ago, America was in the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.

But doesn't that tell all the difference between our philosophies?

Do you want our foreign policy in the hands of those who criticized our rescue mission in Grenada?

North Carolina is a leader, a pathfinder, as this country travels down the road toward the future.