Ronald Reagan

I am pleased to sign into law today S.J. Res. 159, the Multinational Force in Lebanon Resolution.

We must make the Federal government an example in occupational safety and health.

I intend to nominate Helmuth A. Merklein to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy.

I am now setting a government-wide goal of three percent per year for the reduction of workplace injuries.

I asked you to review your safety program, take every step possible to reduce injuries, and make sure that you and your staff are committed to safety.

The Cuban people will be able to hear the truth, and to hear it in detail, about Cuban domestic and foreign policy.

It is our duty as Americans to stop the cancerous spread of Soviet influence wherever it may be.

Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of.

We must be prepared to defend and, if necessary, to die for what we believe in, for the American way of life.

I believe that we conservatives have provided that vision during the past few years.

The presence of our marines as part of the multinational force demonstrates that Lebanon does not stand alone.

Can the United States or the free world stand by and see the Middle East incorporated into the Soviet bloc?

We must foster the hope of liberty throughout the world and work for the day when the peoples of every land can enjoy the blessings of liberty and the right to self-government.

Let us never underestimate the power of truth.

Voters should remember that those who offer easy answers and quick fixes are doing everyone a disservice.

I do hereby proclaim the week beginning on October 2, 1983, as National Schoolbus Safety Week.

Jim knows that a well-educated future generation will make Kentucky stronger economically.

Strong and effective State government is a vital part of the American system of government.

I remember one such program that was proposed during the war on poverty-which poverty won.

Centralizing power in Washington doesn't work.

I'm most pleased to be with you today to support the candidacy of an individual whose strength of character, unbounding energy, and unmatched creativity is going to make Kentucky one heck of a fine Governor—Jim Bunning.

Washington money isn't free money.

Sometimes these government programs, it's a little bit like the story of the country preacher who called on a town about 100 miles away from his own.

Today they're taking something like 44 cents out of every dollar earned.

Freedom of the press has been a fundamental tenet of American life.