Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, and distinguished Members of the House and Senate: When we first met here 7 years ago-many of us for the first time—it...

All of this was made possible by an idea I spoke of when Mr. Gorbachev was here-the belief that the most exciting revolution ever known to humankind...

Our record is not just the longest peacetime expansion in history but an economic and social revolution of hope based on work, incentives, growth, and...

And in a few moments, I'm going to talk about three developments—arms reduction, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and the global democratic revolution—that,...

Toward this end, we have four basic objectives tonight. First, steps we can take this year to keep our economy strong and growing, to give our children...

One other thing we Americans like—the future—like the sound of it, the idea of it, the hope of it. Where others fear trade and economic growth,...

Our recent budget agreement, designed to reduce Federal deficits by $76 billion over the next 2 years, builds on this consensus. But this agreement...

I know I'm echoing what you here in the Congress have said, because you suffered so directly. But let's recall that in 7 years, of 91 appropriations...

Let's change all this. Instead of a Presidential budget that gets discarded and a congressional budget resolution that is not enforced, why not a simple...

And let's take a partial step in this direction. Most of you in this Chamber didn't know what was in this catchall bill and report. Over the past few...

There is another vital reform. Yes, Gramm-Rudman-Hollings has been profoundly helpful, but let us take its goal of a balanced budget and make it permanent....

And speaking of the family, let's turn to a matter on the mind of every American parent tonight: education. We all know the sorry story of the sixties...

My friends, some years ago, the Federal Government declared war on poverty, and poverty won. [Laughter] Today the Federal Government has 59 major welfare...

And now let me turn to three other matters vital to family values and the quality of family life. The first is an untold American success story. Recently,...

So many of our greatest statesmen have reminded us that spiritual values alone are essential to our nation's health and vigor. The Congress opens its...

Here then are our domestic priorities. Yet if the Congress and the administration work together, even greater opportunities lie ahead to expand a growing...

One of the greatest contributions the United States can make to the world is to promote freedom as the key to economic growth. A creative, competitive...

This movement we see in so many places toward economic freedom is indivisible from the worldwide movement toward political freedom and against totalitarian...

The focus is on the Sandinistas, their promises and their actions. There is a consensus among the four Central American democratic Presidents that the...

Yet even as we work to expand world freedom, we must build a safer peace and reduce the danger of nuclear war. But let's have no illusions. Three years...

In addition to the INF treaty, we're within reach of an even more significant START agreement that will reduce U.S. and Soviet long-range missile—or...

We've seen such changes in the world in 7 years. As totalitarianism struggles to avoid being overwhelmed by the forces of economic advance and the aspiration...

At the start of this decade, I suggested that we live in equally momentous times, that it is up to us now to decide whether our form of government would...

We can be proud that for them and for us, as those lights along the Potomac are still seen this night signaling as they have for nearly two centuries...