Ronald Reagan actually said...

This healthy intercourse is encouraged because our countries, our people as a whole, have determined that what we have in common is vastly more significant than those things that separate us.

Context

Toast at a Dinner Hosted by President Li Xiannian of China in Beijing

04/25/1984

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