Ronald Reagan actually said...

"I will tell him the United States not only has the right to go forward with research for a strategic missile defense, but in light of the scale of their program we'd be the greatest fools on Earth not..."

"When we build, they build. When we stop, they build."

"I am able to resume the discharge of the Constitutional powers and duties of the Office of the President of the United States."

"A nonnuclear strategic defense makes good sense."