Jimmy Carter

Remarks on signing the Delhi Declaration.

I have a much more sure sense of what those words really mean.

I felt just as much at home in that Indian village as I did in the palaces.

I would say the most emotional day was yesterday with the visit to Normandy.

I think we also put forward the image of a nation that is strong and secure and self-confident.

I think we did a fairly good job.

We tried to emphasize everywhere I went the concepts of morality and decency and goodness and friendship and human rights.

It was a very deeply moving experience.

But we were received with open arms, and it was a natural outburst of friendship and appreciation, even there, for what our country stands for.

I leave here with a great sense of trust and a great sense of appreciation for not only the strength of the alliance in the past.

Our commitment is not to war, it's to peace.

The other universal theme is a need to resolve conflict without violence, to make peace instead of war.

First and last, our purpose has been the same—to reaffirm in times of rapid change our unchanging faith in allies like your great country and people.

I won't go into detail now because we don't have time.

We have nothing to conceal from them; they are partners in every sense of the word.

The NATO alliance is one that's precious to the American people.

The United States will continue to maintain—undiminished—its firm commitment to NATO and will continue to provide the forces needed to back up that commitment.

That is the challenge for our alliance: to defend our values fearlessly, while tirelessly working to prevent war.

The ancient soil of Europe bears constant, visible evidence of the carnage that war inevitably brings.

Without them, the West stands for nothing at all.

One is the demand for political liberties, for basic human rights.

I am delighted to be back in your great country to renew my friendship with Prime Minister Tindemans.

It is difficult for me to express how deep the emotions have been in me and among the American people for the extraordinary hospitality that has been extended to us on this all too brief visit.

I was deeply impressed by India, the largest democracy on Earth, 700 million people perhaps.

The trip was symbolic.