'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

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

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.

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

[Former President Jimmy Carter released a statement which said that he and his wife, Rosalyn, were] saddened ... her great humanitarian work, her tireless and selfless devotion to others, her sense of mercy and humility, were beacons of light in this world. Our best homage to her can be to seek and cultivate the goodness within ourselves and others.

I'd like to see something similar to the program that was in place back when Jimmy Carter was president, where people were offered some incentives to conserve.