Ronald Reagan

I said that our objective must be reducing the number of nuclear weapons, that we had to work to make the world safer, not just control the pace at which it became more dangerous.

The significance of that meeting at Reykjavik is not that we didn't sign agreements in the end; the significance is that we got as close as we did.

We were just a sentence or two away from agreeing to new talks on nuclear testing.

I am pleased to approve H.R. 2721.

Strategic defense is the key to making arms reduction work.

I offered to put off deployment for a decade, and I coupled that with a 10-year plan for eliminating all Soviet and American ballistic missiles from the face of the Earth.

I think the first thing that's important to do is to put these talks and what occurred into perspective.

Nothing could more threaten world peace than arms reduction agreements with loopholes that would leave the West naked to a massive and sudden Soviet buildup in offensive and defensive weapons.

I think he believes sincerely their propaganda about us: that we're beholden to industrial and military complexes.

It is essential that those responsible for the administration of our textile and apparel programs have the information they need.

Now, the Soviets have made a strategic defense program for years.

There wasn't any need of that.

The American people don't mistake the absence of a final agreement for the absence of progress.

First of all, I'd pledged to the American people that there was no way that I would give away SDI.

We know the Soviet record of playing fast and loose with past agreements.

I asked him once what was so great about a treaty that had our governments saying to our people: We won't protect you from a nuclear attack?

SDI is America's insurance policy that the Soviet Union would keep the commitments made at Reykjavik.

I told him I had pledged to the American people that I would not trade away SDI.

I invite all of our citizens to observe this week with appropriate ceremonies and activities.

Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day.

I urge all Americans to join their fellow citizens of Polish descent in observance of this month.

The current summit process is very different from that of previous decades.

We made it clear we had no illusions about the Soviets or their ultimate intentions.

I urge all Americans to salute the independence of those who carry the white cane.

We proposed the most sweeping and generous arms control proposal in history.