Jimmy Carter Common Sense Quotations

And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

In repudiating extremism, we need to recommit ourselves to a few common-sense principles that should transcend partisan differences.