Ronald Reagan actually said...

No, I don't. I think it kind of shows again the same kind of desperate reaching for something that they did before.

Informal Exchange With Reporters on the Presidential Campaign

10/09/1984

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You do not negotiate or bargain with terrorists.

Now, Sam, you know that that's something I can't talk about either.

This is trying them for murder, a very brutal murder, and the threat of murder to others.

I think that there's a possibility of our own because it was our citizen, but Italy because it was an Italian ship.