Ronald Reagan

I urge the Congress to enact this needed reform in order to avoid the experience of the 1988 Continuing Resolution.

I urge prompt passage of such legislation.

I do hereby proclaim Friday, April 29, 1988, as National Arbor Day.

H.R. 5 is a solid achievement, one that deserves to be signed.

We Americans have both pledged and practiced loyalty from the moment the first patriots conceived the idea of a new and independent Nation where only freedom would reign.

As you once said, the First Lady is elected by a constituency of one, and there's no doubt that the best candidate won.

It gives me the greatest pleasure to present Claudia Alta Johnson with this special gold medal.

The primary responsibility for educating these children lies with the local communities and the States, and not with the Federal Government.

We the People are in charge, and we need give our loyalty not to self-appointed rulers but to liberty.

Loyalty Day says much about the meaning of our country.

I urge the Congress to focus in the appropriations process on the existing, successful programs that this bill reauthorizes.

The allegiance we Americans owe, and give gladly, on Loyalty Day and throughout our lives, is to a land and an ideal that beckon human hearts today just as always.

We have begun to turn back what our education commission 5 years ago called 'a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people.'

Parents are, after all, our first and most important teachers.

We shall avoid the perils of protectionism and gain the advantages of each country producing what each is best able to bring to market.

History is usually generous to those who show leadership, who brought prosperity, who strengthened freedom, and who kept the global peace.

Yes, this will be a subject we'll be discussing.

Well, if he had a complete change of character.

Ronald Reagan has done these things, while never losing his engaging manner and his warm, good humor.

Our peoples are North Americans; we are the products of the same hope, faith, and dreams.

There is hereby established a government-wide program to improve the quality, timeliness, and efficiency of services provided by the Federal Government.

Engraved on the mantlepiece of this room, there is a quotation, I believe, from the first occupant of this house.

The goal of the program shall be to improve the quality and timeliness of service to the public and to achieve an annual average productivity increase of 3 percent in appropriate functions.

When Ronald Reagan came to this house as President, he was accused of saber rattling.

We can disagree without being disagreeable.