Jimmy Carter actually said...

This gathering fulfills a long-time ambition of mine to have the voice of small business heard loud and clear here in Washington.

As part of my determination to meet this and other goals, I've directed all Federal agencies to implement Public Law 95-507 aggressively.

We will cut this deficit in half again, and we will keep working toward a balanced budget as rapidly as we humanly can.

The United States is being severely tested today—tested for our moral courage, tested for our willingness to forgo economic profit, tested f...