Jimmy Carter actually said...

I know how important rural America is to our country.

This is indeed a rural program of comprehensive development, initiated and controlled and forged at the grassroots level.

We hope that the resumed talks will be conducted on a serious, sustained and productive basis and will lead to a just and lasting settlement...

Today I am pleased to sign the Rural Development Policy Act of 1980, which places into law many of the reforms that were developed by this r...