“I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is a good man.”
“Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.”
“Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
“Jimmy, you are small now. I know that. But your heart, so big. Don’t let them hurt your heart. You are big to me.”
“I doubted there was any part of Charleston she could show Carter that he didn't know about. Carter had been around to watch cities like Babylon and Troy rise and fall. For all I knew, he'd personally helped take down Sodom and Gomorrah.”
“If she had only known, things might have been different between us, but I could never talk to her about it"[Jimmy about Molly]”