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

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

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

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.

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