Jimmy Carter

I consider myself to be in the mainstream of the Democratic Party and also in the mainstream of the bipartisan Presidents.

We have added 9 million new jobs.

We would never have had the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill, had Roosevelt, Johnson, Kennedy not been elected.

The Board was established to promote cooperation between private investors and businesses and community development corporation projects.

Social security is and will remain a sound investment.

The committee will recommend the policies and priorities of the National Institute of Justice.

I grew up during the Depression years on the farm, and I saw how my own life was transformed by a Federal Government that I felt cared about us.

Our Nation has not known war; we have been at peace.

The bell rang on our farm at 4 o'clock in the morning Sun time.

Your decision will make a difference.

I oppose taxation of social security benefits.

I went into the Oval Office as a young military officer concerned about what had happened to our Nation's defense.

We are committed to promoting independent living for handicapped persons.

We Democrats believe in a strong social security system.

The Republicans have a lot of money.

The truth is that Governor Reagan worked to convince the American people that Medicare... was socialism.

We don't want tax breaks for the rich instead of creating jobs and giving American workers the tools to compete.

We've come a long way together as a party and as a country, and we're going to go even further.

I promise you this, as long as I am President, the Government of the United States will play its rightful role in making American cars the cars of the future.

The Committee will assure that the administration housing task force will have a broad and informed perspective on housing issues.

I promised you then that if you would send me to Washington as President, we would have a foreign policy that represents the character and the high moral standards and the common sense and the sound judgment of the American people.

Let's make sure we don't have to find out what his choices are for starting armed conflict, with American forces, next year.

Foreign produced alcohol should not benefit from the exemption granted to gasohol from the four cent a gallon gasoline tax.

The bottom line is that the United States is today far less vulnerable to oil blackmail.

The most important issue of this campaign is the issue of peace.