Jimmy Carter

I call upon suppliers and recipients alike to join us in a determined effort to make the world a safer place in which to live.

I will continue that policy this year.

I intend to make further reductions in the next fiscal year.

The strategic value of the canal lies in its use.

We do not own the Panama Canal Zone. We have never had sovereignty over it.

Hope is the most powerful force in the world. It can inspire us to achieve great things.

Full minority participation is a critical component of President Carter's economic and social policy goals.

I urge the Governors of our States and other appropriate officials, organizations concerned with transportation, and the people of the United States to join with the Department of Transportation in observing this day and week.

The United States is a nation dependent on mobility.

Minority ownership markedly serves the public interest, for it ensures the sustained and increased sensitivity to minority audiences.

In my judgment, the public interest requires that G. Joseph Minetti continue to be exempted from such mandatory retirement.

I hereby designate Friday, May 19, 1978, as National Defense Transportation Day.

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I believe under carefully controlled conditions the courts have ruled that it is legal and that they have a right to act this way.

We have no plans whatsoever to reinitiate a bracero program.

I think we need to have more rigid safety precautions assured among all nations in Earth-orbiting satellites.

We propose a net tax reduction of $25 billion designed to create almost a million new jobs by the end of 1978.

I think that the request for or demand for 100 percent of parity is not well founded.

Our program is voluntary, requiring the cooperation of government, business, labor, and all our citizens.

I see no immediate prospect of having to exercise the Taft-Hartley provisions.

The strength of our nation lies in our ability to come together in times of crisis.

Many of you are performers or composers or writers, and I want to thank you also for keeping this wonderful spirit alive.

It's been the birthplace of quality entertainment, which has gone on to thrill the whole Nation.

I'm very proud of all of you for helping to unite the consciousness of our Nation to remember the past, but also to prepare for the future with confidence and also with pleasure.

As a result of that tragedy for our country, there was a shock that went through the consciousness of our Nation.