US Presidency
1984

For the sake of our children and the safety of this Earth, we ask the Soviets, who have walked out of our negotiations, to join us in reducing and, yes, ridding the Earth of this awful threat. When we leave this hall tonight, we begin to place those clear choices before our fellow citizens. We must not let them be confused by those who still think that GNP stands for gross national promises. But after the debates, the position papers, the speeches, the conventions, the television commercials, primaries, caucuses, and slogans, after all this, is there really any doubt at all about what will happen if we let them win this November? Is there any doubt that they will raise our taxes? That they will send inflation into orbit again? That they will make government bigger then ever? And deficits even worse? Raise unemployment? Cut back our defense preparedness? Raise interest rates? Make unilaterial and unwise concessions to the Soviet Union? And they'll do all that in the name of compassion. It's what they've done to America in the past.