Jimmy Carter

The significant improvement in bilateral relations over the past year should be continued and deepened.

We stand ready to assist the Organization of African Unity in working out the basis for negotiations between Ethiopia and Somalia.

What is required from all of us now is reason, patience, and a willingness to cooperate with one another and to obey the laws of the United States.

I will nominate Andrew H. Kenopensky and Dennis R. Smith to be members of the United States Metric Board.

We believe that nuclear energy for peaceful purposes should be made accessible to all countries without discrimination.

I have no apology at all to make for this proposal.

I directed the Attorney General to seek this afternoon a court injunction which will order the miners to return to work.

This unresolved labor dispute has resulted in a strike affecting a substantial part of the bituminous coal industry of the United States.

This strike, if permitted to continue, will imperil the national health and safety.

Good relations and cooperation between the United States and Yugoslavia constitute an essential element of American foreign policy.

We reaffirm the respect of the United States for Yugoslavia's commitment to nonalignment.

Hope is a powerful force that drives us to overcome obstacles and achieve our dreams.

On behalf of the American people, I would like to offer a toast to the great and courageous leader, President Tito.

I urge the Governor to implement fully necessary energy conservation measures so that the necessity for suspension of pollution control regulations can be minimized.

Perhaps as much as any other person, he exemplifies in Yugoslavia the eagerness for freedom, independence, and liberty that exists throughout Eastern Europe and indeed throughout the world.

I hope that you can help me discern those kinds of things; like peace and fairness and basic decency and human rights and honesty, that can be legitimate sources of pride for us.

We want a government that can be trusted, not feared; that will be efficient, not mired in its own redtape.

I think the Congress was very courageous and acted properly in increasing social security payments into the funds to maintain the integrity of the system itself.

Not a single witness called for the repeal or serious weakening of the National Environmental Policy Act.

We must do a better job of teaching these basic skills to all our children.

Justice is not a privilege but a right that every person deserves.

The Council on Wage and Price Stability will continue to play an important role in supplementing fiscal and monetary policies.

True democracy requires active participation and engagement from all its citizens.

I will now appoint a Presidential commission... to work with union and management to find answers to the basic questions of health, safety, and stable productivity.

Tremendous progress has already been made, but we still have a need and an opportunity to make more changes and more progress.