Jimmy Carter

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Leadership is about inspiring others to strive for excellence and achieve their best.

Because of Doctor Jonas E. Salk, our country is free from the cruel epidemics of poliomyelitis that once struck almost yearly.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was the conscience of his generation.

The report contains two funding plans which have been generated by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

We recognize in terrorism a threat which endangers the lives of innocent persons and jeopardizes peace.

We reaffirm our determination to continue efforts on the international level to avoid the dangers of nuclear weapons proliferation.

International relations should be based on mutual respect and cooperation.

I will nominate Lawrence A. Pezzullo, of Bethesda, Md., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Uruguay.

I will nominate Louis A. Lerner, of Chicago, Ill., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Norway.

The work of freedom can never be finished.

While the research conducted by this Institute is of great importance, there are a large number of competing urgent national needs.

Both of these proposed levels are substantially in excess of my current budget request for 1978.

The struggle for observance of human rights is an integral part of the political values of democratic societies.

We agree on the need for intensifying and supporting efforts to attain general and complete disarmament.

Freedom is not a temple that is completed when the last stone is in place, but a living thing that each generation must create anew.

Individual program activities and funding levels must be carefully considered not only on the basis of individual program merit, but also in light of overall resource availability and fiscal policy.

We must realize man's full potential within a socially, politically, and economically just system.

I think the prices are too high.

I would guess that the Secretary of State and my national security adviser, my staff, and others would be adequately qualified.

I have no objection, obviously, to the same thing being done in a mandatory way with the papers and documents of President Nixon.

I look forward with great anticipation to the visit of Prime Minister Begin on the 19th of July.

I think that my own relationship with Mr. Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders should be one of continuing consultations.

I will nominate W. Howard Wriggins, of the Bronx, N.Y., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the Republic of Sri Lanka and to the Republic of Maldives.

Those are the major reasons.