Ronald Reagan

God bless you, and thank you very much.

Today, while we recognize that honest people do have doubts, we, as a nation must have the courage to believe our beliefs and act upon them.

I call upon the people of the United States and interested groups and organizations to observe this celebration with appropriate activities of voluntary service.

The only limits to your achievement are those that are self-imposed.

The quickest way to short circuit this recovery would be to increase the taxes on our people.

We discussed our search for solutions to economic problems facing Canada and the United States.

The Western economies are pulling out of the serious recession.

I have just concluded a productive meeting and lunch with Prime Minister Trudeau.

The friendship and alliance between the Australian and American peoples is forged on the Pacific battlefields of World War II.

We also examined several pressing bilateral issues.

I outlined the need to maintain effective deterrent force and to achieve real movement toward the reduction of nuclear weapons.

I look forward to our future meetings and delighted to have you here again, Mr. Prime Minister.

Our purpose, in conformity with American and international law, is to prevent the flow of arms to El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa Rica.

We do not seek its overthrow.

Central America's problems do directly affect the security and the well-being of our own people.

Democracy is beginning to take root in El Salvador, which, until a short time ago, knew only dictatorship.

Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble, and the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy.

El Salvador is nearer to Texas than Texas is to Massachusetts.

We must support the regional efforts now underway to promote solutions to regional problems.

It is the ultimate in hypocrisy for the unelected Nicaraguan Government to charge that we seek their overthrow.

The countries of Central America are smaller than the nations that prompted President Truman's message.

It's not too much to say that what began as our unique vision—human progress through individual opportunity—will grind to a halt in America if we fail to meet our educational challenges in the eighties.

No, I don't see any need for—

Those of us who are responsible for security, we don't go at how much we want to spend.

We can no longer afford to pass students who fail to learn from one grade to the next simply because they've come to the end of the year.