Ronald Reagan

I can't stress enough how strongly I feel the potential for good, for human betterment, and for our own national interest is tied to what we've called the Caribbean Initiative.

The safe and efficient disposal of nuclear waste is an issue of profound concern to all Americans.

It's in our own vital interest to help our Caribbean friends to protect themselves from hostile, foreign-inspired forces that would impose an alien ideology through the use of violence and terrorism.

By encouraging private actions we are not inferring that government's role should be eliminated.

Today I need your help to encourage them to put that potential to work directly on some problems that we've let sit too long.

I wish all those who claim our greatest days are past could grasp the energy and vitality in grass roots America today.

Our Jewish citizens have contributed greatly to our economic and moral growth as a Nation.

By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America...

I, Ronald Reagan, do hereby proclaim the week beginning April 25, 1982, as Jewish Heritage Week.

There are too many people who don't know about the many wonderful things that your organizations are doing.

Putting America's economic house in order meant changing attitudes, particularly the dangerous tendency to turn to government to solve every problem.

The freedoms we enjoy as Americans have evolved in great measure from the richness and strength of our Judeo-Christian heritage.

American Jewry has made significant and lasting contributions to every facet of American life.

The tapping is about to begin.

I do hereby proclaim Sunday, June 20, 1982, as Father's Day.

We're witnessing a rebirth of concern and involvement that historians may describe as a reawakening of the American spirit.

I don't—this thing that I'm just going to say to you might sound now as if I'm being militant or something, and I'm not.

Andrew E. Gibson would succeed John W. Clark.

More of what people earn belongs to them.

I don't believe for one minute that America's best days are behind her.

Trust the people—that's the secret weapon.

I do hereby proclaim the year 1982 as the 'National Year of Disabled Persons.'

The American dream of human progress through freedom and equality of opportunity in competitive enterprise is still the most revolutionary idea in the world today.

William W. Watkin, Jr., would succeed Clifford Bradley O'Hara.

We can make America work again.