Jimmy Carter

I want us to recommit ourselves this evening not to betray the noble ideals that they espouse.

Thirty years ago this organization was formed with some very difficult tasks, but fairly clear tasks: to stop lynching, to permit black citizens to vote, and to let little black children go to school.

I look forward with particular pleasure to the visit I will be making to Rome in June.

America has been brought to its knees by this incident, not in submission but in prayer.

Efforts to control and verify strategic nuclear weapons in the interest of world peace should not be abandoned.

There is no way we can spend our way out of inflation, and there's no way we can wish our way out of inflation.

The principle of civilized behavior and rule of law is at stake.

The Honorable Anne Wexler, Assistant to the President, will head the delegation.

I didn't know the answers—to the major questions even.

We don't have an unlimited fund with which to pay for all the needs that you face; we don't claim that, we never will.

The most serious domestic issue is still inflation.

All the hostages must be released unharmed.

We have added a net of 9 million new jobs in this Nation, never before done in wartime or peacetime.

I am going to do all I can to hold down the inflation rate, and I need for you to help me.

This unacceptable violation of the sovereignty and independence of a previously non-aligned state constitutes a grave threat to the peace not only of a vital region but of the entire world.

We will not be allowed to commit such aggression with impunity.

We are committed to the vigorous pursuit of all promising avenues that might lead to that settlement.

I am very grateful this morning to welcome a true friend of the United States.

I will nominate Elizabeth S. Carpenter, of Austin, Tex, to be Assistant Secretary of Education for Public Affairs.

We have faced difficult and trying times.

I fully intend to explore these important matters and to work with the Congress in developing any needed improvements.

This is, indeed, a time to recognize that the peace and the prosperity of Europe is dependent upon the peace and prosperity of the United States.

It's an honor for us to have a statesman and a scholar, a great diplomat and a firm political leader to come and be with us this evening.

Today I announced that I will nominate Charles C. Flowerree.

I know all of you join me in this happy occasion.