Jimmy Carter

Sunshine is the best disinfectant.

I will never turn my back on official misdeeds.

Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.

We will not lie, cheat or steal, nor tolerate among us those who do.

I think that the President himself has certainly a right, even an obligation, to express to the public displeasure or criticism of programming content.

I do think there is too much violence on television.

Regulatory agencies will, indeed, be tribunes for the people.

I think it borders on the sacrilegious.

I think that the government should do everything possible to minimize abortions.

I am strongly opposed to the proliferation of new agencies, departments, bureaus, boards and commissions because it adds on to an already confused federal bureaucratic structure.

I would like to be known as the foremost protector of consumers.

I have been victorious in some hard-fought campaigns.

I would do everything I could through moral persuasion and through my own actions as President to minimize a need for abortion.

I believe that it would take approximately a year before a final and comprehensive proposal can be made to the Congress.

I think that if I try to ascribe that completely to religious convictions, that would probably be inappropriate.

Because of my success in the primaries, people began to study the beliefs of Southern Baptists.

Our public opinion polls have shown since the convention that I have strong support from all religious groups.

I believe that the so-called prejudice against me because I am a southerner and because I'm a Baptist was overestimated to begin with.

I have been deeply hurt, as have many other Americans in the last few years, with the deterioration and the quality of our governmental processes.

I would not approve of [the use of Medicaid funds for abortion] at all.

I do favor the right of the Attorney General to obtain pre-merger injunction.

My own religious convictions on the abortion issue are in conflict with the laws that our nation must observe.

I would like to stop that if I am elected President.

I think abortion is wrong and I think that government ought not ever do anything to encourage abortion.

My life has been shaped in the church.