Ronald Reagan

Much has been achieved in only four years, but this huge task is not completed.

We believe that when it comes to running county government, county officials will always do better from the county seat than bureaucrats could ever do from Washington.

They know, Americans know, that however they may fear us over there, they may think that we're the other—you know that we don't have any aggressive intentions of suddenly going after them with a weapon of this kind.

Come deployment time if the research yields such a weapon, come deployment, then you sit down.

I urge each member of Congress to approve the Peacekeeper and join me in a bipartisan and united effort in Geneva.

Today I announce my intention to nominate William L. Ball III to be an Assistant Secretary of State.

It seems to me that this, if it developed, could be an aid in bringing that about.

The public treasury is a trust, not a gift shop.

The only defense that we have are two sides sitting here with increasing numbers of these weapons saying that our defense is that if you blow our people up, we'll blow your people up.

We cannot and will not do this by raising taxes—period!

It is an evolving success story and one in which we can all take pride.

The continued procurement and deployment of the Peacekeeper are essential to national security.

I believe that one of the things in this partnership I've mentioned that I can do—or we can do for you is continue to bring down the Federal Government's share of the tax burden.

I think they're trying to match it, and, as I say, I think they started ahead of us on that.

It's time to send out another message—one of determined commitment to lasting growth and a secure future.

I won't deny all the groups I mentioned represent valid interests, which may seem compelling.

I'll take the political responsibility.

As long as I'm President, we're not going back to the days when America was fast becoming an impotent democracy.

We're asking Congress to have the political courage to cut $50 billion by Easter.

Many of its proposals follow the spirit of recommendations by the Grace commission, some 2,000 citizens who compiled a report on how to cut spending growth without harming the needy or impairing any essential purpose of government.

I believe that the change in direction we have instituted during the past four years will continue even beyond this Administration.

I am pleased to announce my intention to nominate John H. Moore to be Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation.

This is a wonderful time to be alive.

Freedom movements arise and assert themselves.

I herewith report six new deferrals of budget authority for 1985 totaling $58,900,000 and four revised deferrals now totaling $110,566,481.