Ronald Reagan actually said...

We can't ask the brave young men and women in our Armed Forces to protect America with second-rate equipment and bargain-basement weapons.

Remarks at a Fund-raising Dinner for Senator John Tower in Houston, Texas

04/28/1983

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

By the authority vested in me as President by the laws of the United States of America, including Public Law 98-473 and Section 301 of Title...

I don't believe that there's any linkage.

I'm not going to comment one way or the other on that because we have avoided any idea of linkage there.

I'm not going to speculate. I'm just going to say that we are doing everything that can be done.