The economy is growing stronger—and stronger than most people, including ourselves, predicted.

The role of government should not include performing services and activities that can effectively and efficiently be carried out by the private sector.

Inflation, high interest rates, excessive taxation, and burdensome regulation are serious problems for small business.

My Administration's economic program will enhance the ability of small business to meet these challenges.

Small businesses are important sources of product and process innovations.

But I think that, now, after all of the criticism and all of the sniping and all of the sneering at what they called Reaganomics, there is so much evidence that the plan was successful.

I think that there is a certain level as to the percentage of gross national product that government takes for itself.

I encourage Americans of all faiths to walk together in such a spirit of reconciliation, rejecting violence in any form.

The national government also has an important, but limited, role to play in the education system.

Please turn away from the moral bankruptcy of the men of violence and heed the call for peace and reconciliation.

Next to peace and reconciliation, Northern Ireland's greatest need is for jobs to bring hope and opportunity to all its people.

We cannot remain indifferent to the tragedy that confronts the people of Northern Ireland.