07/08/1981
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"And today I reaffirm to Prime Minister Soares that the United States stands ready to help modernize the Portuguese Armed Forces."
"There should be no Republicans or Democrats—just Americans."
"We just did it—that we believed that here was a school that we would like to have this relationship with."
"No, I have always felt and based any campaigning or anything that I do on what we do, not what the other fellow says he's going to do—what we do and what we plan to do."