Jimmy Carter actually said...

"I have talked personally this evening to Prime Minister Ohira [of Japan]."

"I think that the Soviets, as I said earlier, have been expecting this development."

"The normalization of relations between the United States and China has no other purpose than this: the advancement of peace."

"Normalization—and the expanded commercial and cultural relations that it will bring—will contribute to the well-being of our own Nation, to our own national interest, and it will also enhance the stab..."