Jimmy Carter

If you elect me President, before this next term is over, we're going to have a balanced budget in Washington and you can depend on that.

I'm glad to be back in Indiana.

I know what it means to struggle and struggle successfully and I appreciate my background.

I see no reason for our nation to be divided.

Next year, with a Democratic President, working with a Democratic Congress, we're going to have a comprehensive reform of the income tax structure of this country and make it fair for a change.

We need a Democratic President to face forward and to approach the future with confidence.

Poverty creates crime.

We have committed two-thirds of all of our federal energy research and development funds to atomic power.

The continuing global proliferation of nuclear weapons is a dangerous and unacceptable barrier to world peace.

President Ford has seriously neglected this country's obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Any country possessing a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant can recover the plutonium needed to make an atomic bomb from the spent fuel rods of an atomic power reactor.

We must not use the difficulty of the nuclear proliferation problem as an excuse to justify timidity on the part of the United States in standing up for the goal of world peace through limitation on the proliferation of nuclear weapons…

We need to decrease the influence of lobbyists and special interest groups.

This is not the kind of nation that we had.

In the absence of that leadership, there is no leadership.

I think America can do better.

I want the government to change.

We prefer a minimum of secrecy in government and a maximum of privacy in our own lives.

There is only one person in this country who can speak with a clear voice to the American people.

I think it's time for Democratic leadership that can enact economic policies that put people ahead of the special interests.

I intend, with your help to change them.

Leadership must be derived not from an imperialistic attitude toward the Presidency, but from a constant realization of the source of the leader's strength.

I give you my word of honor. I don't believe anybody who has been bogged down in Washington 25 or 30 years is going to make a change that's basic.

We believe that it's best to put the authority and the responsibility as near as possible to the individual human being.

My political support in the primaries, my strength if I become President, will be derived directly from the people.