Jimmy Carter actually said...

"I think that sort of personal attitude—environment—within which I live helps me to do a better job in dealing with the transient and quite often controversial decisions that have to be made in politic..."

"I would like to see more openness in government, an absence of secrecy, an accountability of public officials for their performance."

"I've learned from those experiences, I study the Bible—I read a chapter from the Bible every night without exception—and that gives me a constant inclination to study."

"I think that a basic cornerstone of our foreign policy should be preservation of the nation of Israel, its right to exist, and its right to exist in peace."