Ronald Reagan

One of the greatest strengths of our Nation is the rich mixture of people from various cultural backgrounds.

Let us acknowledge the millions of heroic parents throughout the Hispanic community.

Students and teachers must work together and understand each other's problems.

We must reduce the dropout rate to 10 percent or less.

Grandparents play a crucial but often unrecognized role in the strength of America's families.

We should regain at least half of what we lost in the sixties and seventies on scholastic aptitude test scores.

Sometimes grandparents live in the same home as their grandchildren and sometimes they live many miles away, but in either case they can and often do play a very important role in their grandchildren's development.

Nancy and I urge all Americans to set aside time to honor their grandparents on September 9.

Families are the chief repository of our nation's values but, more than that, they are centers of love and affection, where each individual is accepted as a unique person, created in the image of God.

Those grandparents deserve a special word of thanks from all of us.

If another country had done to our schools what we ourselves did to them, we would be justified in calling it an act of war.

We've seen a new seriousness about the importance of education in our lives.

Watching too much TV is time badly used.

We've always been a nation of doers.

Violence and disorder have no place in our schools.

America's strength is in its people.

The United States International Trade Commission is therefore directed to make an immediate investigation under Section 22 of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, as amended.

Howard D. Gutin will make a fine member of the Board of Directors.

It has to be peace, and it has to be reduced arms, particularly in the strategic field.

I want you to know that we intend to use the convention in our efforts to expand human freedom and fight human rights abuses around the world.

In an effort to build an enduring peace and to reduce the level of arms, we have presented the most comprehensive set of arms control and weapons reduction proposals in history.

I hereby delegate to you the functions conferred upon me by Public Law 98-396.

The denial of import relief on copper should act as a signal and as encouragement to our partners around the world to resist protectionist acts and, thus, will foster that recovery.

This party is on the move, and I sense it will continue to carry the momentum for a long time.

Granting import relief is not consistent with our national economic interest.