Ronald Reagan

I'm confident that ties between Malaysia and the United States are strong and friendly.

Malaysia shines as an example in many areas.

The United States applauds ASEAN's determination in these troubled times.

Today I announced my intention to nominate Daniel F. Bonner to be Associate Director of the ACTION Agency.

We can all take pride in this impressive accomplishment, which demonstrates the success of our efforts to reduce government meddling in the affairs of private citizens.

We have hope that the decade of the 80s can begin a new era of resurgence for the country and the Presidency.

Without your support, and the hard work of those involved in the paperwork control program, our achievements to date would not have been possible.

It is with great reluctance that I accept your resignation as Assistant to the President for Communications.

I share that goal, and I believe we have made progress toward its fulfillment.

I am counting on each of you to devote your personal attention to meeting your agency's paperwork-reduction goal for the current year.

There is no valid argument for doing too little.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and statutes of the United States of America...

All of us share a dream.

The values and freedoms we cherish as Americans rest on our fundamental commitment to the sanctity of human life.

Today the two women in the Senate, my friends, Nancy Kassebaum and Paula Hawkins, are Republicans.

One of my proudest days in office was when I appointed Sandra Day O'Connor as the first woman Justice on the United States Supreme Court.

The prime rate is almost half what it was when we took office.

The American people were fed up, and they did a little house cleaning.

I want line-item veto.

We look on you as our eyes and ears, as leaders who truly know what the American people think and need.

Abortion has denied them the first and most basic of human rights, and we are infinitely poorer for their loss.

I will only—and try to say correctly—Tsai jen, which I'm told means 'See you again soon.'

Any business deal that makes sense is based on mutual benefit.

A modern, economically developing, and politically stable China is in the best interest of all peace-loving peoples.

Cooperation between our two countries in the area of science and technology not only contributes to the scope of human knowledge and to China's own modernization; it also cements the ties between our governments and our peoples.