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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Sep 22, 1980

We have never taken a position that Iran or Iraq should be a threat to which we would respond with our force or might.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Sep 22, 1980

The worst thing I could do as President would be to escalate this disruption or altercation between Iran and Iraq to an even greater international crisis because of ill-considered decisions by myself.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Sep 22, 1980

I'm grateful in the last 3¼ years there has been no American troop or soldier sent to endanger his or her life in combat against another nation.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Mar 10, 1980

Our American policy and the principles on which we have based that policy have not changed.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Feb 21, 1980

There is established the President's Commission on United States-Liberian Relations.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Feb 7, 1980

The Chancellor made clear that the Soviet Union should take its troops out of Afghanistan without delay.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Jan 28, 1980

The Caribbean is of great interest to our country and is our closest group of neighbors.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Jan 20, 1980

The absence of such controls would prove detrimental to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.

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Jimmy Carter
@jimmycarter· Democratic · GA· Jan 20, 1980

The controls are essential to achieve U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives.

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