Jimmy Carter actually said...

Military readiness may be the best guarantee that military force need never be used.

Selective Service Revitalization Statement on the Registration of Americans for the Draft

02/07/1980

More Jimmy Carter Quotes

The Federal Government will remain eager to help in any way possible.

I don't think it helped anything.

That sounds like the highest authority.

The loss of property and the loss of life is a sobering reminder to us that there is a need for us to work together in a time of challenge.