Ronald Reagan actually said...

"I ask you to join me in a toast to the enduring friendship between the Irish and American peoples."

"I'm convinced that together we're going to be able to get this problem... the economy of this country back on the upturn where it should be."

"We in the United States know the great contribution made by citizens of Irish ancestry."

"We here, in this land, have no deeper wish than that by the next St. Patrick's Day, if not before, the conflict and violence in North Ireland will have been replaced with reason and good will."