Ronald Reagan actually said...

Our goal remains not to match the Warsaw Pact system-for-system or warhead-for-warhead, but to maintain forces adequate for credible deterrence and defense.

Context

Letter to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on the NATO Tactical Nuclear Posture

09/11/1984

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

More Ronald Reagan Quotes

I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 4759, the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987.
10/26/1986
An Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee on South Africa is hereby established, under the Chairmanship of the Secretary of State.
10/26/1986
We're now enjoying one of the longest peacetime economic expansions in postwar history.
10/24/1986
The first thing we did was cut your taxes and index them so that wouldn't happen again.
10/24/1986

View All Ronald Reagan Quotes