Ronald Reagan

If we don't expect anything from our kids, why should they expect anything of themselves?

President today announced his intention to nominate Thomas J. Healey to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

I proclaim August 3, 1983, as National Paralyzed Veterans Recognition Day.

Now, I can't imagine anything more discouraging for young teachers than to see a rigid salary scale laid out for the rest of their lives that ignores their efforts no matter how good they might be.

Remember that back at the time the ideals of our nation emerged, it was composed overwhelmingly of men and women who made their living from the land.

Our abundance is a product of the hard work of our farmers, the skill and technological know-how that we put into agriculture and, most important, the freedom of which we're so proud here in America.

Today, one of our farmworkers produces enough food to feed himself plus 50 other Americans and 20 people in other countries in the world.

We can be very proud that we live in one of the few countries of the world that will not tolerate hunger.

What we do need is a commitment to education and not just more money.

There is established the President's Commission on Organized Crime.

This senseless violence must cease.

I herewith report three new deferrals of budget authority totaling $16,118,000.

The time has come for us to take a strong stand against organized crime.

I will appoint J. Joseph Lydon to be a member of the Advisory Committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Their authorization of production of the Peacekeeper missile reaffirms the fact that, as a nation, we are united in our approach to arms reductions and protecting peace.

I do hereby designate the week beginning July 24, 1983, as National Animal Agriculture Week.

If we can maintain our stable, bipartisan, consistent approach here at home, we have a great opportunity to achieve what we all want—lasting stability in the nuclear balance and significant reductions of nuclear arsenals on both sides.

It is good news for all Americans that the House and Senate have again demonstrated bipartisan unity in pursuit of two vital national goals—strategic modernization and arms control.

War is man's greatest stupidity.

We support democracy, reform, and human freedom.

We want to help our neighbors lift themselves up to prosperity.

I can only repeat to you that we're going after organized crime, root and branch.

I don't think the American people have ever wanted a war.

The challenge of crime today in America is a grave one.

You stand at the forefront of our efforts to detect and counter the increasing hostile intelligence threat to our country.