Jimmy Carter on Meeting with Foreign Leaders at the 26th Annual National Prayer Breakfast

As part of my preparation for meeting with Indian leaders, I read the Bhagavad-Gita and later visited the site where Mahatma Gandhi's body was cremated and [...] I felt a kinship with him and a kinship of the Indian leaders who have not always been our friends in recent years. [...] Last year, at a relatively small supper at the White House, Crown Prince Fahd from Saudi Arabia ... gave one of the most eloquent impromptu speeches I have ever heard about how a common religious faith and their responsibility to hold together the interest in the holy places of Islam gave him confidence in the future and guidance on how his own life should be expended in the service of others. [...] And in [President Anwar Sadat's] messages to me and in my talks with him, he never fails to point out that the Egyptians and the Jews are sons of Abraham, worship the same God, share a common heritage and a common faith.