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

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. — Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. — Jimmy Carter

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror. — Jimmy Carter

I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself! — Jimmy Carter

Even Jimmy Carter can't be wrong all the time. — P. J. O'Rourke

President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed. — Andrew Young

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power. — Jimmy Carter

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

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. — Jimmy Carter

Trust is very much a part of our democracy. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Jimmy Carter

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

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. — Jimmy Carter

Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible. — Ann Coulter

Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons

We cannot know the mystery of the future. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Jimmy Carter

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker. — Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

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

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn't object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned. — Jimmy Carter

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

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

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor. — Jimmy Carter

It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. — Jeane Kirkpatrick

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

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. — Jimmy Carter

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily. — Jimmy Carter

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. — Jimmy Carter

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere. — Jimmy Carter

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

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. — Jimmy Carter

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

The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Jimmy Carter

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice. — Jimmy Carter

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. — Rich Little

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

Put on a sweater. — Jimmy Carter

White House cultures inevitably reflect the president's character. Jimmy Carter is a thoroughly honest, good person. So was his White House. — Bill Drayton

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

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

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. — Jimmy Carter

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world — Jimmy Carter

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

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

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Jimmy Carter

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

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

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront. — Jimmy Carter

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

Jimmy Carter is the most intelligent. Jimmy Carter is a good man. — Sirio Maccioni

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

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

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

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

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. — Jimmy Carter

Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? — Frank Scully

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower. — Shirley Maclaine

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

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment. — Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. — Jimmie Johnson

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan. — Ted Cruz

Children and Jimmy Carter ruin your best laid plans. — Tina Fey

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

President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong. — Newt Gingrich

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

Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. — Newt Gingrich

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. — Jimmy Carter

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

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

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

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman. — Jimmy Carter

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

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. — Jimmy Carter

Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him. — P. J. O'Rourke

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

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business. — Jimmy Carter

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. — Jimmy Carter

Testing oneself is best when done alone. — Jimmy Carter

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. — Jimmy Carter

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. — Jimmy Carter

If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me. — Andrew Young

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

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains ... who is the next Ronald Reagan? — Kathleen Troia McFarland

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

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

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

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

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined — Jimmy Carter

We cannot ignore our gift of the future. — Jimmy Carter

Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right. — Jimmy Carter

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy. — Jimmy Carter