Jimmy Carter actually said...

I've had two goals in mind, as your President and as their President: first of all, to protect the integrity and the principles and the interests of our own country.

Context

Lyndhurst, New Jersey Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Local Residents

10/14/1980

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