Jimmy Carter Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Jimmy Carter on Wise Famous Quotes.
My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
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.
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 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 think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.
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.
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.
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.
There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
(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.
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.
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 world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
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.
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 obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, ... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.
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
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.
My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.
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.
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.
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.