Ronald Reagan

America wants tax reform, and America deserves tax reform, and if we stand together, America is going to get tax reform.

The best cure for poverty is a strong and growing economy.

The U.S. Congress remains the greatest invention in self-government this world has ever seen.

I want a tax system that encourages prudent management of resources, a system that rewards those who work by permitting them to keep more if they produce more.

The way to progress is not, as some in the Nation's Capital would have us believe, to harness the energy of the American people by centrally directing it from Washington.

Live free or die is more than a motto; it's a way of life that we're bound and determined to preserve.

We're going to try to get into real discussions that we would hope could lead to a change in the relationship between the two countries.

And I know; I lived through that period.

That's the lesson of the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930, which helped to trigger a worldwide trade war.

This recovery, the greatest one we've known in decades, has been done with this same trade imbalance.

Let me point something out about this.

I think it's high time that we talk to each other.

I think that when you're standing up against a cellophane wall and you're getting shot at from both sides, you must be doing something right.

Yes, there's no question about the seriousness of this and the need to find an answer.

We've begun doing many good things for America these last 4% years.

I wasn't going to give him a friendship ring or anything.

I think there are probably some individuals that haven't learned the lesson or haven't lived long enough to have been around when the Great Depression was on.

A mindless stampede toward protectionism will be a one-way trip to economic disaster.

Opportunity is our engine of progress.

I have been supporting it for more than 4 years now.

This is a top priority with us.

Today I announced my intention to nominate two distinguished individuals.

Thomas W. Moses will be a valuable addition to the Advisory Committee on the Arts.

Mr. Freedenberg has been staff director of the Subcommittee on International Finance and Monetary Policy.

The Jewish High Holy Days remind us of the permanence and depth of those values.