Ronald Reagan actually said...

"Yet his portrait shows, despite all those years of exercising power, John Stennis has remained what he was at the outset—a man of gentleness, courage, and conviction."

"We give special emphasis to an issue of central concern to the NATO alliance—the deployment of intermediate-range nuclear forces in Western Europe."

"In the words of George Will, 'Representative governments are, well, awfully representative...'"

"Michael would snap, and in the picture that resulted, nothing would matter but the individual—the way he or she stood, the way they held their hands, the look on his or her face."