In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.

We haven't had an agenda for American cities probably since at least Jimmy Carter. We have left cities to fend for themselves.

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I want the freaking Marines to be carrying his luggage, and they want to carry his luggage.