Ronald Reagan actually said...

"the Berlin Wall is a dramatic example of the desperate and cruel extremes to which totalitarian regimes will go to deny their subjects contact with other Europeans."

"The regimes responsible for the barrier must be constantly reminded that their elaborate efforts to stifle human freedom with walls, mines, gunfire, and barbed wire are a colossal admission of failure..."

"We are going to meet with them with regard to the theater nuclear weapons in Europe."

"I think we might sit down sometime and see what it was the people really wanted."