"... when you stop to
think that we're all God's children, wherever we may live in the
world, I couldn't help but say to him, just think how easy his task
and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there
was a threat to this world from some other species from another
planet outside in the universe. We'd forget all the little local
differences that we have between our countries and we would find out
once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this
earth together"
White House transcript of "Remarks of the President to Fallston High
School Students and Faculty"
December 4, 1985
"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget
how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some
outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I
occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would
vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world"
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly, 42nd
General Assembly
September 21, 1987
"I occasionally think how quickly our differences, worldwide, would
vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world"
From a speech with President Mikhail Gorbachev, in 1988
He made almost the same
comment on many occasions
