Ronald Reagan

We're on the road back.

I believe you know the answer.

I hereby report on the pay adjustments I ordered for the Federal statutory pay systems in October 1982.

The rights and benefits of active and retired rail workers would be unaffected by this reorganization.

The railroad retirement system faces severe financial difficulty.

The scheduled rates of pay and allowances for members of the Uniformed Services were increased by the overall 4 percent in rates of pay under the General Schedule.

The Secretary of Labor, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Office of Personnel Management found that an overall increase of about 18.47 percent in General Schedule rates of pay would be required to…

The Budget Resolution adopted by the Congress last June, which I supported, anticipated an increase of 4 percent this October in support of our economic recovery program.

Restoring the rail industry's pension to the private sector as proposed would free rail labor and management from inappropriate Federal intrusion in their affairs.

It is my belief that the parties should be free to negotiate and implement changes in the railroad retirement system as part of their normal collective bargaining.

We must pursue these goals rigorously, thoughtfully, and in close consultation with all here.

Peace in the Middle East means achieving security for all the states in that troubled region—security for the Arab States and security for Israel and a sense of identity for the Palestinian people.

We've knocked down the punishing interest rates by nearly 50 percent.

Our mutual goal of peace and the road to it lies through a negotiating process which I hope can be resumed in the very near future.

I do hereby designate the month of October as Head Start Awareness Month.

Our meeting today with King Hassan and the delegation is an important milestone along the road toward a common objective: a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

Instead of saying welcome to these children, we should say welcome home.

This good and humane law—and it is that—recognizes the rightful claim of Amerasian children to American citizenship.

The right way to change is to reduce government spending.

I went there to face up to those problems and, with your support and prayers, to begin to solve them.

Partisan politics must not delay the healing of America.

America has endured a long, terrible night of economic hardship, but now we are seeing the first welcome bursts of sunshine.

I intend to nominate Betty H. Brake to be Deputy Director of ACTION.

We are on course to recovery, but not another counterfeit recovery like all those other seven in the past.

Without a prosperous agriculture there can be no prosperity in America.