Jimmy Carter

Agencies should establish cooperative data collection programs with State and local governments wherever practical to eliminate duplicative reporting.

Making government work better is a long, tedious, and unglamorous process, but it must be done.

Making government work better is not the most dramatic or exciting subject, but there are a few things that we can do during this administration to assure the American people that this important subject is being resolved as successfully as…

Agencies should provide an opportunity for users and interested members of the public to comment on all proposed new application and reporting forms.

I am directing that all Federal agencies take steps to simplify and streamline their administrative procedures consistent with OMB directives.

Our country has taken a consistent stand for many years that the establishment of settlements in the occupied territories on the West Bank... by Israelis is illegal.

We are very hopeful that Argentina... will join with other nations... in signing the Treaty of Tlatelolco to prevent any development of explosives.

Costa Rica represents the kind of nation that's worthy of admiration and emulation.

We have great hopes that rapid progress might be made in alleviating this problem.

My hope is that under his leadership the relationships can be improved very soon.

He wants Argentina to be judged not on his words alone, but on the demonstrable progress that he stated would be made.

I think it was one of the most productive and most frank discussions that I've had with any leader.

We have very great concern about the status of human rights in Uruguay.

Not as far as I know.

We must address the problems of poverty and inequality with compassion and commitment.

In my judgment, Bert Lance ought to have a chance for a hearing without delay, comprehensive in nature, with every allegation and fact produced for the American people to know.

I think, though, that if I continue to make a judgment on each individual decision that confronts me on the basis of its merits, that ultimately I'll survive and will retain an adequate support from our people.

One of the most difficult threats to peace in our entire hemisphere has been the breakdown in relations between El Salvador and Honduras.

We have an extremely good relationship with the Dominican Republic.

We cooperate on the sugar agreement.

President Balaguer has set an example for all leaders in this nation in changing his own country and his own people away from a former totalitarian government to one of increasingly pure democracy.

We had a very thorough discussion about matters that are of mutual importance to us.

I hope the U.S. Congress will approve this critical energy project before the close of the session.

The project will benefit Canada by facilitating development of its own gas reserves, particularly in the frontier region to the Mackenzie Delta area.

Today, we have agreed in principle on the elements of a joint proposal to construct the Alcan-Foothills pipeline along the Alaska Highway to transport Alaskan natural gas through Canada to the lower 48 States.