Jimmy Carter

Cash awards totalling $967,155 were paid for adopted suggestions during Fiscal Year 1980.

You have produced a report which contains many innovative recommendations and ideas, and they have already initiated considerable public debate.

I firmly believe that... our Nation is stronger, wealthier, more compassionate and freer than it was four years ago.

The Federal Government has an obligation to nurture and protect our environment.

The raising of these issues for public debate is an important end in itself.

Our economy is recovering from a recession.

I likewise share your optimism that we can achieve economic health, and our other goals as well, if we face up to our problems.

Each Federal dollar spent on design shall be viewed as an investment in enriching the quality of American life.

Real output has grown at an average rate of 3 percent per year since I took office, and employment has grown by 10 percent.

The Council on Wage and Price Stability has played an important role in supplementing fiscal and monetary policies by calling public attention to wage and price developments or actions by the Government that could be of concern to American…

I believe that we have identified a mix of policies which has a good prospect of seeing us through the eighties safely.

There are no simple or easy answers to very complicated problems.

Inflation and unemployment are unacceptably high.

I recommend, therefore, that the Senate give early and favorable consideration to the Protocol and advise and consent to its ratification.

We cannot abandon our older urban areas.

There are no simple nostrums.

What is most important now is that the Commission's report stimulate a public discussion of where the country should be heading in this decade.

I intend that the strictest interpretation be applied to these standards.

Executed as ordered.

The Council shall consist of representatives of the following agencies and such other officers or employees of the United States as the President may designate as members.

I am not recommending such actions, because persistent inflationary pressures dictate a restrained fiscal policy.

I herewith propose 33 new rescissions of budget authority previously provided by the Congress, totalling $1,142.4 million.

There is hereby established a Food Security Wheat Reserve composed of a reserve stock of wheat, which shall not exceed four million metric tons.

Medicine or medical supplies are excluded from such controls

We cannot do all that we wish at the same time.