Dennis Quaid
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a fantastic thing about America, but that's not the way the world works.
We're all a product of the way that we grew up.
We've basically grown up in this country with relative safety and we have, you know, a nation that has had laws that, you know, form of law and you do things the right way and the wrong way of what you consider.
But, you know, can you imagine what it was like for Saddam to grow up in Iraq?
or Chi or Putin and the way they grew up, that makes them the way they are.
And the Russian people had grown up the same way.
So you start to get a sense of how the rest of the world doesn't operate on the same rules that we are.
They actually have a more realistic way of looking at things, the way man has actually been from the tribal stage on.
You know, you got the water and we want the water.
We don't want to share it.
Because you'll piss in it and it'll destroy it.
So we want it for ourselves.
But Reagan came along and, you know, he had the idea to bankrupt them, to make them spend.
He came out with Star Wars.
He really got that name from the movie, the whole Star Wars thing, which is now the Patriot defense system over in Israel.
It didn't exist at that time.