Ronald Reagan

They want the slaughter on the highways to stop.

Let us all observe safety and celebrate safely.

I ask all Americans to join in a national campaign to eliminate drunken and drugged driving.

Let us resolve to make National Drunk and Drugged Driving Awareness Week the beginning of a national campaign that will not end until death by drunk and drugged drivers is brought under control.

Our loved ones are not being killed in drunk driving 'accidents'—and I put the word 'accidents' in quotation marks—they're dying because some of the Nation's motorists have chosen to turn their vehicles into weapons.

We must never let this happen.

The Peacekeeper is a modern missile, and it is survivable.

I can't believe the American people want to make that mistake a second time.

Without the Peacekeeper, we weaken our ability to deter war.

Let us also hope and pray that the blessings of liberty will one day be shared by all people.

I never went to bed every night with great confidence that I could work my will with Congress.

A vote against MX production today is a vote against arms control tomorrow.

The first responsibility of the Federal Government is the security and the freedom of the people of this country.

The United States is determined to remain a credible force for peace in the world.

I have said this before—you know, I didn't realize until just a few years ago, but when I did realize it, I was filled with mixed emotions and a feeling of challenge that we have to meet—that our own national anthem is the only one I know…

The greatest way that we're going to save money on defense is getting the Soviet Union to join us in arms reduction.

I'm an eternal optimist.

Freedom is not the sole prerogative of the fortunate few, but the inalienable and universal right of all human beings.

The security of America is our highest responsibility.

I think that's been a little distorted, because the same Joint Chiefs—well, one or two at most—had different ideas that they thought might be better with all the confusing things.

I have confidence in America's future, because I have confidence in each of you.

I have just completed a meeting with the Cabinet Council on Food and Agriculture.

That was shown in Ohio, where a county lost a traditional employment base and, instead of giving up, formed its own economic development team to stimulate new commercial and industrial activity.

We dare not try to spend, tax, and borrow our way back to prosperity, because that would push America right back into the swamp where we found ourselves in 1980.

Basing our overriding goal of providing a safer and healthier workplace for Federal employees, this effort should result in significant cost savings.