Ronald Reagan

Our economy was broken, and women were hit especially hard.

It's a dream of a land where every citizen is judged only on merit, a land where every woman and man is free to become all that she or he can.

When all is said and done, what really counts is drive and energy and determination.

The only two women in the Senate, Nancy Kassebaum and Paula Hawkins, are Republicans.

Chappie wore four stars on his shoulder and 50 stars in my heart.

We began the Fifty-eighth Annual Black History Month, a national celebration of the role of Black Americans in all segments of life in this nation and in Black culture around the globe.

Today we mark the 58th annual Black History Month, a celebration of the part that black Americans have played in building our great country.

This Black History Month brings back a personal memory.

If we lose, then all that we've worked so hard to accomplish will be undone.

They opposed the very idea of a tax cut again and again throughout the 1980 campaign.

Martin Luther King and others often said that black Americans must assert a sense of their own worth.

I have long believed that our Nation's budget must be balanced.

The captain was black.

I have long believed that the vitality of the American economy and the prosperity of the American people have been diminished by inappropriate policies of the Federal Government.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

I am firmly committed to keeping inflation on a downward path.

I am very optimistic about the prospects for the American economy.

This year's Black History Month theme, 'Black Americans and the Struggle for Excellence in Education,' is particularly timely.

May Black History Month be an especially meaningful and productive time for all of us.

Let's approach this election year with the high spirits and the sense of challenge that's such an important part of American politics.

It is a very special privilege for me to call on the people of the United States to join in this important time of exploring, learning, appreciating, and saluting all that Black Americans have done to help build this great nation.

The inflation rate has declined dramatically over the past 3 years.

I made up my mind then that anything I could ever do to help in seeing that no parent in this country ever again would have to tell a child they were denied something because of some difference in their complexion.

And thank God, it has been.

I think these are the Republican goals for 1984 and beyond.