Ronald Reagan

Fairness also means giving some much needed relief to the long-suffering American family by raising the standard deduction to $4,000 and nearly doubling the personal exemption to $2,000.

We're free to follow our imaginations into a future of abundant promise.

No matter what they call it, no matter how they disguise it, no tax increase will cross my desk without my writing a great big veto on it.

Today we're being called to a second American revolution of hope and opportunity.

You're urging this country on toward a vision of optimism, hope, and prosperity.

One of the first priorities of our tax overhaul is to make sure that more of your hard-earned dollars end up where they belong—in your wallets and not in Uncle Sam's pockets.

I transmit herewith, for the advice and consent of the Senate to ratification, the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer.

The Convention provides a foundation for global multilateral undertakings to protect the environment and public health from the potential adverse effects of depletion of stratospheric ozone.

Expeditious ratification by the United States will demonstrate our continued commitment to progress on this significant environmental issue.

Provided both sides manifest the necessary goodwill and co-operation, an agreement can be reached without further delay.

The spirit that won the West is still, in my opinion, very much with us in this country.

Status quo—that's a Latin name for the mess that we're in with our present tax structure.

It's wonderful to be in Independence.

This congressional committee says it is fair to low-income working families, fair to large families, single-parent families, and average-income families.

Our tax reform bill isn't for special interests; it's for the general interest.

I'm proud to be talking about this good deal in the home of the father of the Fair Deal.

By shaping a better future for our workers, we can and will assure continued progress and even greater opportunity for all Americans.

Labor Day, 1985, finds the American wage earner better off than in many years.

Increased exports means more jobs for American workers, more growth, more opportunity.

I proudly join my fellow citizens in saluting our Nation's working men and women.

Workers have contributed as much to America's social greatness as they have to our economic strength.

The surest way to destroy those jobs and throw Americans out of work is to start a trade war.

Faith in the loving God who will continue to guide us on the optimistic course we've set.

I notified Congress of my decision not to impose either quotas or tariffs on foreign shoe imports into this country.

We should call it destructionism.