Jimmy Carter actually said...

"We want to emphasize that the United States is totally committed to the carrying out of its responsibilities for the protection of foreign diplomats in the United States."

"We've learned the mistake of military intervention in the internal affairs of another country when our own American security was not directly involved."

"The most wasteful and self-defeating thing that we could do would be to start this necessary program, then alter it or cut it back after a year or two."

"Sustained American strength is the only possible basis for the wider, truly reciprocal detente which we seek with the Soviet Union."