Ronald Reagan

Everything that has been good in my life began here.

You, the members of the 1982 graduating class, are this year's harvest.

Graduation Day is called 'Commencement,' and properly so, because it is both a recognition of completion and a beginning.

We seek only harmony.

But varied social contacts add to health and contentment, and we all can contribute as members of our communities by volunteering our time or other help.

To me as long as there is one single person able and willing to work but unable to find work, that is too high an unemployment rate.

We often forget that nursing home residents need more than medical care.

Budgets don't contain deficits.

You're hearing the same thing now about the new budget for 1983 and whether we can afford further budget cuts without doing harm to our social programs.

Shouldn't we be allowed to see both?

This is no time for politics as usual.

It does nothing of the kind.

Please join me in honoring those who live in nursing homes and in working to assure them the quality of care and compassion they so richly deserve.

The budget which I worked out with the Republican members of the Senate committee reverses an ongoing increase in deficits.

Let me just first tell you how I feel about unemployment.

I will protect the benefits of social security recipients now and in the future.

I have never believed that the oft quoted amendment was supposed to protect us from religion.

I have said to the delegates that I appointed to that task force that the people who are now dependent on social security must be assured that they're going to continue to get their benefits.

Almighty God created the mind free.

I believe we can restore a freedom that our Constitution was always meant to protect.

No one will ever convince me that a moment of voluntary prayer will harm a child or threaten a school or State.

I shall continue to exercise the powers at my disposal to deal appropriately with these problems.

The road to economic recovery begins with a responsible budget now.

Today, prayer is still a powerful force in America, and our faith in God is a mighty source of strength.

It'll be rather difficult for them to explain how they did not want to be a party to a plan that was going to reduce the 3-year deficit by $416 billion.