Ronald Reagan

We are proud of all of you, and while there may be some people who think that the uniform is associated with violence, you are the peacemakers.

That we're determined, that we are going to close that window of vulnerability that has existed for some time with regard to our defensive capability.

This is somewhat different.

We're going to make sure to the best of our ability that your pay is fair and that you have the equipment that is needed to do the job right.

I hereby designate September 13, 1981, as 'Commodore John Barry Day'.

Yes, I want to help, here and every place that I can.

I once was a Democrat and that all these years, you see, I've been a subversive agent in the Republican Party.

Now we've got to make it work.

Providing security for the United States is the greatest challenge and a greater challenge than ever, but we'll meet that challenge.

where the Republicans go before they die.

We will expect an answer by 4 o'clock.

I want to say how proud you have made all of us.

If our men are fired on, our men are going to shoot back.

we are not going to endanger the checks that are going to those people dependent on social security.

You are ensuring peace just by doing what you're doing, because any potential enemy has to see that the price of aggression is just more than he might want to pay.

There's no greater gift that you can give to your family, your community, or your country than the protection that you afford all of them by this job that you're doing.

By the authority vested in me as President of the United States of America by Section 115 of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, it is hereby ordered as follows.

I call upon all Americans to recognize and contribute to the imperative of providing safe transportation for our schoolchildren.

The Commission shall submit a final report to the President no later than September 21, 1981.

Our country's greatest resource is its children; their education is our investment in the future.

This represents $750 billion in tax cuts over the next 5 years.

We are going to meet with them with regard to the theater nuclear weapons in Europe.

I think we might sit down sometime and see what it was the people really wanted.

What can the world think of leaders who fear that their own people will flee their homeland at the first opportunity?

the Berlin Wall is a dramatic example of the desperate and cruel extremes to which totalitarian regimes will go to deny their subjects contact with other Europeans.