Ronald Reagan

We can help the long-term unemployed by providing needed financial assistance and offering new incentives to employers to hire and train them.

The single most effective long-term cure for much of our unemployment problem is to get the economy moving again.

The proclamation also reinforces this government's policy of promoting the United States fishing industry.

The United States will exercise and assert its navigation and overflight rights and freedoms on a worldwide basis in a manner that is consistent with the balance of interests reflected in the convention.

The result has been a new lease on life for one of our most basic government programs, social security.

Make no mistake. We want the same thing the people of Central America want-an end to the killing.

The signs of recovery are springing up all around us, and there's no mistaking the fact that at long last America is on the mend.

Let me just say a word about those elections last March.

I hope and believe it reflects a bipartisan spirit of putting people before party that will guide us all in meeting other national challenges in the days ahead.

The nations of Central America are among our nearest neighbors.

With our support, we expect that the steady progress toward more equitable distribution of wealth and power in El Salvador will continue.

I am proclaiming today an Exclusive Economic Zone in which the United States will exercise sovereign rights in living and nonliving resources within 200 nautical miles of its coast.

The United States will not sign the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention that was opened for signature on December 10.

America is meeting her challenge here at home.

Democracy is what we want, and what we want is to enable Salvadorans to stop the killing and sabotage so that economic and political reforms can take root.

The United States does not stand alone in those concerns.

I'm happy that a hard-working, dedicated, and thoroughly decent individual has been named as Secretary of that awesome job.

Welcome to the team, and good luck.

We must continue to demonstrate our resolve not to allow the military balance to tip against the United States.

I have been greatly disappointed that some persons have unjustly attacked you.

The United States will not start fights.

You have responded with a grace and straightforwardness that have won you countless admirers across the Nation.

A strong, credible American defense is indispensable to protecting the peace.

Only two budgets in the world are greater than that—the entire budget of the United States Government and the budget of the Soviet Union.

We will not be the first to use aggression.