Ronald Reagan

I think all of us here have a love for Jim Brady.

Thank you again for being here and for representing a proud part of our American culture and heritage.

Americans of Hispanic descent have been playing a major role in this administration and have been doing so since day one.

That medal is only given for service above and beyond the call of duty.

I hope that your presence here today assures you that we do not take the Hispanic community for granted.

I think it's wonderful that so many of you would join in what is a most, I think, wonderful and worthy endeavor, the idea being to start a foundation.

I think the purpose is a little entertainment.

These Hispanic members of the administration are not picked because of their ethnic background.

The issues I've talked about are of course concern to all Americans.

People understand that making this government live within its means will ultimately do more to bring down interest rates and put our unemployed back to work than anything else we could do.

Well, you know, our administration has the strange idea that you all weren't born just to help government grow fatter.

Throughout the Baltic States, Eastern Europe and Asia, now in Africa and Latin America, nation after nation has fallen prey to an ideology that seeks to stifle all that's good about the human spirit.

Altogether, this process of vetoes and reconsideration by the Congress has saved the taxpayers more than $3.6 billion.

Under the circumstances, I consider this action a sound economic measure and a victory for the American taxpayer over runaway Federal spending.

Today we, as a nation, also remind ourselves of the preciousness of our own freedom.

We love this land, and we will not give up our American dream.

To the leaders of Solidarity, to the people of Poland, to all those who are denied freedom, we send a message today: Your cause is not lost. You are not forgotten.

Freedom is not granted to us by government; it is ours by divine right.

The ominous growth of this danger, the human suffering that it's caused, is clearly the most important news event of our generation.

What we need is a campaign for truth that will give us the freedom to communicate and share our beliefs.

Now, we're going to try to turn the situation around.

Yes, and there have been giant budgets for 21 of the last 22 years that I didn't have anything to do with.

It is a good and balanced bill which I can endorse.

I am particularly pleased the bill preserves the individual rate reductions enacted last year.

Adoption of this bill will lead us on a downward path of deficit reduction.