Ronald Reagan actually said...

Government cannot close down the assembly line.

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on the Air Traffic Controllers Strike

08/02/1981

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

Together there is nothing that Japan and America cannot do.

Let us have the wisdom never to repeat that policy.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.

Americans are full of admiration for the Japanese people.