Political Quotes

On the recordMay 26, 1988
We can do no less than uphold it and try to see it turn, as the Soviets say, into 'life itself.'
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Ronald Reagan
Republican · California

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Remarks to the Paasikivi Society and the League of Finnish-American Societies in Helsinki, Finland

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