"Did it have to come to this? The paradox is that when Europe was less united, it was in many ways more independent. T…"

"What was really so bad about the ‘80s was an excess of personal freedom. [...] Think of gridlock on the freeway: ever…"

"Who ever decided that Americans were so bad off in the seventies anyway? From the right-wing revisionist propaganda t…"

"At the beginning of the 1980s the world community faces much greater dangers than at any time since the Second World …"

"In a sense, the 1980s helped bring further to fruition American hopes in the mid-1940s that economic liberalism would…"

"And fifth, we must use the decade of the 1980's to attack the basic structural weaknesses and problems in our economy…"

"Throughout the 1980s and 90s, when many developing countries were in crisis and borrowing money from the Internationa…"

"the 1980s, when Nancy Reagan's slogan "Just Say No" passed as high-level drug education."

"I remember 1989 vividly, having spent much of that summer in Berlin before the Wall fell. And while largely peaceful …"

"Our challenges are formidable. But there's a new spirit of unity and resolve in our country. We move into the 1980's …"