“In matters of national security, the best politics is no politics.”

—  Henry M. Jackson

As quoted in [STATE OF THE UNION: REAGAN REPORTS TO THE NATION; PRESIDENT REAGAN'S SPEECH BEFORE JOINT SESSION OF CONGRESS, February 5, 1986, New York Times, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE5DA1331F936A35751C0A960948260&sec=health&pagewanted=3]

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