Ronald Reagan

We're going to simplify the tax system, actually make it understandable and clear and fair.

No, I don't believe so.

Small businesses create most of our new jobs.

We're not going to retreat from the research that could deliver to the world a defense against these nuclear weapons.

To simply drive them up into the Ural Mountains or someplace else and then say that they're not a threat to Europe makes no sense.

No, I don't believe so at all.

I don't know whether they're trying to do that or not.

We're going to keep on trying to do that.

Well, he could probably feel that way because the Soviet Union is about 10 years ahead of us in developing a defensive system themselves.

Yes. Everything they're saying is a change in their position.

Great American corporations should not be strapped by a system that is tied to the stake of tax shelters.

I intend to fight for our plan—a top corporate rate of 33 percent.

Lower tax rates mean greater freedom, and whenever we lower the tax rates, our entire nation is better off.

I'm not going to discuss the terms they're proposing.

As I've said, rates for most individuals will come down.

No, this is between them and the Soviet Union. And more power to them.

I hope you will remember that not only are most people upstanding and law-abiding citizens, but they are also on your side in the fight against lawlessness.

Right and wrong do matter, individuals should be held accountable for their actions, and society has the right to be protected from those who prey on the innocent.

I doubt that I have ever failed to mention that yours is one of the most difficult of any profession in civilized society.

It is Interpol that institutionalizes and makes vastly easier those professional contacts and vital exchanges of information that each of you needs to serve the people of your country.

In addition to dramatically increasing the number of prosecutors and Federal agents working in these areas, we have taken many other steps.

The United States is honored and proud that you would choose our Capital as the site of your convention.

She is conservative enough, and she's executed the policies that I have wanted for that particular agency.

I am delighted and happier than I've been in a long time that Margaret Heckler has agreed to my request that she become the Ambassador to Ireland.

As we work to rid our schools of crime, drugs, and violence, isn't it time that everybody in the media and entertainment industries followed the leadership of those who've accepted their responsibility to our nation's youth?