Ronald Reagan

The core of our foreign policy is our permanent partnership with our fellow democracies in the Atlantic alliance.

That is, actually involving them in dependency to the place where they never can get out.

We have never given up on that.

The task of leadership is to rise to challenge.

Federal spending must be brought under control.

Today new opportunities are opening as the people of the free world are brought closer together by technology and the elimination of political barriers to commerce.

Portugal is a founding member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a valuable friend and an ally.

Well, the State Department has already contacted them about that, and we are making our own feelings clear that they should be working toward a multiracial democracy and not oppressing political organizations there.

We hope that improved U.S.-Soviet relations will help move things in that direction.

America loves a winner, and I think this campaign exemplifies the winning spirit of American enterprise and competition.

Anything that will keep the freedom fighters as a pressure on the Sandinistas is worth doing.

The INF Treaty constitutes a breakthrough in verification, the most far-reaching in the history of arms control.

Korea and the United States are longtime allies and friends.

I think that involving our military when there is no need to is very rash and foolish.

There is a choice. We must act to ensure that freedom is not smothered in Nicaragua and to guarantee that these latest promises will be kept in a timely way.

U.S. businesses are in the process of recapturing old markets—we shouldn't shoot ourselves in the foot after we've worked so hard and are in a position to win the race.

We seek to achieve an historic breakthrough: to make the Federal Government more fully accountable for its actions.

I happen to believe that on a level playing field they can outproduce and outdo anyone, anywhere.

The political and economic advantages of carefully negotiated and effectively verifiable arms reductions hold great promise for peace, security, and continued prosperity for our country.

Democracy is a process, not an end point.

Our message to the people of Nicaragua tonight is the same as it has been for the past 7 years: freedom based on true democratic principles.

I don't think it's up to us to dictate the settlement in the Middle East.

We're beginning to beat our major competitors, both in third markets as well as in exporting to them directly.

We're in the midst of a great trade turnabout.

Our goal is not a nuclear-free or a tank-free or an army-free Europe but a war-free Europe.