Ronald Reagan actually said...

"After five decades, when you sing our spines still tingle and the ice still melts."

"And today millions are grateful that you did."

"You know, when this good old house was built our country was little more than a band of towns, a very thin band, running along the eastern seaboard—people clinging to the edge of a vast and untamed co..."

"Since that brilliant work, you've continued to make rich contributions to American letters with plays like 'The Crucible' and 'A View From the Bridge.'"