Carter Quote by Alexander Haig

It is worth emphasizing that Iran released our hostages in 1981 the day Ronald Reagan was sworn into office.

— Ted Cruz

President Carter famously said the hostages were the first thing he thought about in the morning and the last thing he thought about at…

— Ted Koppel

Carter's hopes died when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and he ended up having to reverse policy and launch the military buildup that Reagan…

— Walter Russell Mead

“Much of the public was convinced that the CIA was capable and willing to do so. Thus began the famous 444-day American hostage crisis.…

— Ervand Abrahamian

Jimmy Carter used to walk off the airplane carrying his own luggage. Do you remember that? I don't want my president carrying - I…

— Donald Trump

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

— Barack Obama

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

— Ted Cruz

In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.

— Bob Hope

The villains will come along. There were plenty in the Carter administration, and there will be plenty with Reagan.

— Joseph Heller

I can remember - I don't want to identify the individual - but a very prominent Democrat, who compared looking at Carter and then…

— Anonymous

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

— Newt Gingrich