Jimmy Carter actually said...

The Department of Energy will be in operation less than 2 months after I signed the enabling legislation.

Department of Energy Remarks of the President and Secretary of Energy Schlesinger on the Activation of the Department.

09/12/1977

More Jimmy Carter Quotes

So, we learn from one another.

It is not enough to measure a nation's product in our gross national financial product, but we should think about the outcome and the output...

I am recommending at this time that no funds be provided for these projects in FY 1978.

For 200 years, our people have lived with one very brief interval, around 1812--in a spirit of friendship.