Jimmy Carter, US president who brokered Camp David peace accords but struggled domestically - obituary

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Asked in 1958 to join one of white citizens' councils formed to prevent desegregation, he refused to pay the $5 entrance fee: "I'll flush this money down the toilet before I give it to you."
57% : He also encouraged the employment of women in state government offices.
57% : I've committed adultery in my heart many times" - raised doubts about his judgment.
52% : Every department of the state government was required to justify every item of expenditure.
51% : "God did not intend me to spend my life on instruments of destruction to kill people," he explained.
50% : "By dint of a mammoth struggle, various measures of oil conservation were passed by Congress in October 1978.
44% : Penalties were introduced to discourage the manufacture of petrol-guzzling cars; the pricing policies of electricity companies were remodelled to discourage waste; tax incentives aimed at stimulating coal production and solar energy.
44% : The breakdown of order in Iran in late 1978, leading to the flight of the Shah in January 1979, reduced oil supplies, so that by May there were queues as long as 500 cars at petrol pumps in California.
41% : But though the sight of mobs in Tehran burning the Stars and Stripes, chanting anti-American slogans and parading their hostages, produced a savage reaction in the United States, and at first Americans rallied to Carter as the national leader.
34% : Carter also made brave attempts to tackle the problem of energy consumption.

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