Jimmy Carter

The United States should put primary efforts on ensuring full employment.

I've learned from those experiences, I study the Bible—I read a chapter from the Bible every night without exception—and that gives me a constant inclination to study.

I would like to see more openness in government, an absence of secrecy, an accountability of public officials for their performance.

I believe we can grow and prosper again as a country.

I am proud to meet here with President George Meany and the other great leaders of the labor movement.

To act anew we must to solve the problems of inflation and unemployment, too.

We can create jobs, maintain stable prices, meet our people's needs, and achieve a balanced budget.

The work ethic is very simple. It means people at their jobs.

We will never use unemployment and recession as a tool to fight inflation.

The unemployment rate today at 7.8 percent is higher than any time between the Great Depression and the inauguration of Gerald Ford.

There's no give or take now.

Well, we have the specific programs.

I believe that this single, simple law which could be written in one paragraph could almost transform in a beneficial way the politics of our country.

I think it will be a tough campaign, but we are ready for it.

That's right, we'll both be very careful about spending money.

I think the nation's consciousness has been stirred by some of the great leaders that have been chosen in this country in the electoral process.

Whenever a government prescribed freedom as a basic premise, inevitably the strong overcame the weak.

We ought not to be satisfied just to see the great changes made in the South because of these courageous leaders who preceded most of us.

So we'll never have justice in this country, which we all would like to see, until we have full participation in the political processes for all our people.

Yes; I've always thought it would be close.

I don't ordinarily wake up in the middle of the night and worry.

We've got a long way to go and it can't be done with a dormant, acquiescent acceptance of a change in the law.

In several counties the registrars office was opened 1 hour per week.

Yes; I think we'll win.

I think it's important that we have the debates, too, in kind of neutral territory.