Organizing for America

FLASHBACK: EVEN REAGAN SAID--"NEVER RETREAT FROM NEGOTIATIONS"

"We will never retreat from negotiations. I have openly expressed my
view of the Soviet system....But this doesn't mean that we can't deal
with each other. We don't refuse to talk when the Soviets call us
imperialist aggressors and worse, or because they cling to the fantasy
of a Communist triumph over democracy. The fact that neither of us
likes the other system is no reason to refuse to talk. Living in this
nuclear age makes it imperative that we do talk. Our commitment to
dialogue is firm and unshakeable, but we insist that our negotiations
deal with real problems, not atmospherics."

President Ronald Reagan's Jan. 16, 1984 Address on US-Soviet Relations.

http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/11684a.htm