Ronald Reagan

I'm sure you have many questions and many things on your minds, and I'm anxious to hear what you have to say.

The only way to resolve differences is to understand them.

The freedom to keep the fruits of one's own labor is a freedom that the present reforms seem to be enlarging.

You have the prayers and support of the American people.

I believe this a hopeful time for your nation.

We may hope that perestroika will be accompanied by a deeper restructuring, a deeper conversion, a mentanoya, a change in heart.

Human rights are fundamental, absolutely fundamental to our relationship with the Soviet Union and all nations.

Freedom will truly come to all.

Despite clear and fundamental differences, and despite the inevitable frustrations that we have encountered, our work has begun to produce results.

But we also know that it can be done because we share a common goal: strengthening the framework we have already begun to build for a relationship that we can sustain over the long term.

We've traveled a long road together to reach this moment.

Through Western firmness and resolve, we concluded the historic INF treaty that provides for the global elimination of an entire class of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missiles.

I would like to see more Soviet young people come here to experience and learn from our society.

History has taught us that it is not weapons that cause war but the nature and conduct of the Governments that wield the weapons.

I shall say, among other things, that the Soviet Union should fully honor the Helsinki accords.

While there are improvements, the basic structure of the system has not changed in the Soviet Union or in Eastern Europe.

Democracy not only guarantees human rights but also helps prevent war and, in truth, is a form of arms control.

John's service in the succeeding decades has demonstrated the highest dedication and commitment to the well-being of the Nation and his beloved State of Tennessee.

We value the creative statesmanship that has been Finland's gift to world peace.

Freedom is the most distinct, peculiar, and powerful invention of the civilization we all share.

We can do no less than uphold it and try to see it turn, as the Soviets say, into 'life itself.'

Let me interject here that at one time Moscow was known as the City of the Forty Forties because there were 1,600 belfries in the churches of the city.

Yes, freedom—the right to speak, to print; the right to worship, to travel, to assemble; the right to be different, the right, as the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau wrote, 'to step to the music of a different drummer'—this is…

I am very pleased with the action of the United States Senate in consenting to ratification of the INF treaty.

Nancy and I wish John and Lois the very best of everything always.