Ronald Reagan actually said...

The bottom line is the Soviet embargo was bad for our farmers, bad for our economy, but not that bad for the aggressors we were supposedly going to punish.

Context

Remarks on United States Agricultural Policy to Representatives of Agricultural Publications and Organizations

03/21/1982

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