Ronald Reagan actually said...

"The measure of their heroism is that only a few seconds after they had completed the rescue, the vehicle exploded."

"The true test of civilization, it's been said, is not the census or the size of cities or the crops, but the kind of people the country turns out."

"This is one of the things that we hope we are going to see revived in America, more voluntarism, more effort expended by people in a neighbor-to-neighbor way and less of the officialdom of government ..."

"We will work together with you and with our other friends in the region to counter Soviet aggression and to strengthen security of all the countries in the area."