Ronald Reagan actually said...

I would answer that the facts would belie any such supposition.

Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Reporters on a Meeting With Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko

09/10/1984

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

We have to consider their safety.

We're in the midst of a dangerous and volatile situation.

I have to war it out as long as those people are there and threatened and alive.

Let it be known that there are limits to our patience.