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 as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.