Ronald Reagan

John McCloy's selfless heart has made a difference, an enduring difference, in the lives of millions.

I'm delighted that we've had this opportunity to discuss a wide variety of issues of mutual importance to our two countries.

It's essential, Mr. Prime Minister, that our two governments do all we can in support of the Secretary-General's Cyprus initiative.

Together, we're serving the cause of peace and freedom.

And again, a very happy birthday from all of us.

It was the heroic work of men like John McCloy during the difficult postwar period that did much to preserve world freedom and unite our two nations in friendship.

The strength and cohesiveness of NATO have assured the security of the Western democracies for more than three decades.

As long as the people of Nicaragua are still striving for the goals of the revolution that they themselves fought, I think that we're obligated to try and lend them a hand.

We should never forget the Holocaust.

I am pleased to announce my intention to appoint Robert S. Fryer to the Board of Trustees of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

This was a murder, a coldblooded murder; and it reflects on the difference between two societies—one that has no regard for human life and one, like our own, that thinks it's the most important thing.

I think there are more people who are opposing the regime right now in Nicaragua than actually fought in the revolution against Somoza.

I don't see where there could be any compromise on weapons systems that have been chosen, because we believe they're necessary to redress the imbalance between ourselves and the Soviet Union.

I don't think the people have heard the thing that we're trying to explain of what is going on.

America will maintain deterrence by modernizing our strategic forces.

I want it clearly understood today that if we fall to meet this obligation, then history will hold us fully accountable to the consequences.

U.S. support for the freedom fighters is morally right and intimately linked to our own security.

Many well-intentioned people would rather not accept these facts.

Private capital working in an open market is the most effective engine of development.

What could be more moral than a system designed to save lives rather than to avenge them?

His intention to appoint Robert Dean Blackwill, of Maryland, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be the Representative of the United States of America for Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions…

The achievement of a just and lasting peace between Israel and all its neighbors is a major goal of the United States.

The Strategic Defense Initiative is not an arms development program.

Space, like freedom, is a limitless, never-ending frontier on which our citizens can prove that they are indeed Americans.

Let history record that in our day America's best scientific minds sought to develop technology that helped mankind ease away from the nuclear parapet.