Jimmy Carter

Veto is a very useful mechanism.

I think that in the last 3 years when the embargoes have been imposed... there was an emergency.

No, of course I wouldn't do that, not if it would create hunger in our own nation.

I don't believe there's any farmer in the United States that would want or expect any leader to create a direct hunger in this country with a total crop failure and still ship food overseas.

Under none of those four circumstances would I have imposed an embargo.

That's not much to ask.

Our people respect the American farmer.

I haven't met a small farmer who wants to be on welfare or guaranteed a profit without work, but we should take away his chains.

I say it's time to take down the wall.

I want to tear those walls down.

But I prefer to go on from my farm to the White House and stop embargoes once and for all!

Farmers are the first and foremost environmentalists.

The family farm has preserved the values—honesty, dependability, hard work and faith—which we need to rediscover as a nation.

I believe that the best government is the one closest to the people.

Nobody who's spent as much time on a farm as I have wants the government to manage our farms.

Character and integrity are important, but leadership capabilities and a closeness to the people and the comprehension of what our people need are two additional component parts.

I would probably continue the annual prayer breakfast which has become historically accepted.

I don't think government ought to do anything to encourage abortions, and I think we ought to have a nationwide effort... for those who believe in their use, family planning programs, better adoptive procedures.

Presidents, governors, and Members of Congress can't decide what kind of educational programs a young person is going to choose.

The leadership has got to come from the White House.

I believe that the government ought to be open, and that those locked doors ought to be broken down.

We must bind up our wounds.

International terrorism must be stopped once and for all!

I would like to see it decentralized.

I see abortions as evidence of a failure to prevent unwanted pregnancies.