Jimmy Carter actually said...

We know that we can best honor our friendship, and our own democratic principles, by respecting your free choice about your own future.

26th Anniversary of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico Statement by the President

07/24/1978

More Jimmy Carter Quotes

We want our coal to be of high quality.

These goals are not impossible to achieve.

I have been committed to the vigorous enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment to our Constitution and of our civil rights laws.

I have a responsibility to my successors and to the American people not to permit that encroachment to take place.