Ronald Reagan

I am today announcing my intention to suspend a portion of the sanctions I placed on Japanese products last April.

Achievements like this are not the result of wishful thinking, nor are they made more likely by loud proclamations of a desire for peace.

Only this type of continuing resolution, unencumbered with additional and potentially objectionable provisions, would achieve speedy Executive approval and thereby avoid unnecessary and costly disruptions of government.

This agreement will be a win-win situation, not only for the United States and Canada but for the world.

Today, we're poised to make another great leap of progress by creating free trade anew between our country and Canada.

It has been the shield of democracy and the greatest deterrent to war in history.

Yes, and in the four decades since the end of the Second World War, the free peoples of the world have continued to prove their courage and, just as important, as never before to demonstrate their solidarity with one another.

Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country.

I am confident that when people look back on this pact it will stand out as one of the premier achievements of the 20th century.

We'll be building on what we did last year when we cut the deficit by $73 billion, nearly one-third of what it was in 1986.

On November 6th our expansion will enter the history books as the longest peacetime expansion on record.

To have the honor, if confirmed, to be Secretary of Labor will be to have a special bond with each of these American workers.

In just 3 days the employment figures will come out for October.

One way or another, we're going to put the public menace of deficit spending behind bars.

She'll give the Labor Department decisive and forceful leadership.

This has been an expansion for all seasons and all Americans.

S. 1663 does contain other objectionable provisions.

The administration supports extension of child abuse prevention and treatment programs and adoption opportunities programs.

There is no need for statutory establishment of such a commission.

These grants have achieved their purpose since most States have now established trust funds for these activities.

The administration is confident that the HMO industry can stand on its record of delivering quality and cost-effective care without continued protection from market competition.

The world is looking to Washington for leadership.

From now on, deficit cuts, like diamonds, must be forever.

Let us realize that Deedie has just gone through a door from this life to that other life that God promised us.

How do we say goodbye to someone we've loved for so long, someone of innate tenderness who loved us?