The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office… second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes – I’ll use the word – who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.
