On the recordApril 8, 1986
We will never pay off terrorists because that only encourages more of it.
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presidency.ucsb.eduRonald Reagan: “We will never pay off terrorists because that only encourages more of it.”
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Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With the American Society of Newspaper Editors
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That is, again, one of those things I should have said to your question.
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