Ronald Reagan

I commend and urge all governors, mayors, other public officials, leaders in business and labor, and private citizens to continue to help meet the challenge of ensuring equal employment opportunities and full citizenship rights and…

I hereby designate Afghans returning to and resettling in Afghanistan and Afghans internally displaced within Afghanistan as persons qualifying for assistance under Section 2(b)(2) of the Act.

You'll do it till you get it right.

Columbus was the inventor of the American dream.

I've said if all the young people of the world could get to know each other, there'd never be another war.

Why they would want to deny America a defense against nuclear missiles, a defense that the Soviets have been candid enough to say they're building for themselves—why the liberals would want to do that, I don't know.

I urge the Senate to return to this issue and to give our law enforcement agencies the support they need.

I do hereby proclaim October 2, 1988, as a National Day of Recognition for Mohandas K. Gandhi.

Public money should not be used for abortions; many liberals said it should be.

I feel compelled to add that these bills are by no means perfect.

It's time the liberals realized that the fight against drugs is not 'Pee Wee's Big Adventure' but a serious and dangerous business.

These victories didn't come easily, but each will help shape our nation in the years ahead.

I've often said that genuine welfare reform must be geared to making people independent of welfare; and that means, among other things, that those who receive welfare must be required to work.

Our campaign for a drug-free America is simply too important for Congress not to act before adjournment.

With America exporting more than ever, protectionism means destroying American jobs, and I won't allow it.

Nevertheless, simply getting timely congressional action is a great achievement.

The bill would establish an undesirable precedent.

I've been Commander in Chief for almost 8 years now.

Congress is going to have to stay and work so that all remaining bills will be complete and in a form I can sign.

When they say they're tough on crime, don't you believe it.

To the Congress of the United States: In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report one revised deferral of budget authority now totaling $20,134,291.

The lesson from Munich is too clear and too important to be forgotten.

Yes, the family is the bedrock of our nation, but it is also the engine that gives our country life.

Excellence—that's our goal, and we're going to get it!

I had hoped that we'd mark the end of the dog-ate-my-homework era of congressional budgetry, but it was not to be.