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My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

I've committed adultery in my heart.

To me, Faith is not just a noun but also a verb

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.

To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

We cannot change the history of the past.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense ... human rights invented America.

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

I'm a Southerner.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaid. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

In every instance that I have known of with confrontation with the government and the press, the press was always right. So keep it up.

Jerry Falwell can go straight to hell - and I mean that in a Christian way.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear ...

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding.

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

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

I can get up at 8am and be rested ... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt
Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

As we ask God for some blessing, we have an obligation to participate ourselves in the fulfillment of those dreams, aspirations, hopes, and ideas.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with ... greater joy, peace, and happiness.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.