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Jimmy Carter
American
President
About the author
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Needs
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Agreement
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Principles
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Sense
#America
#Rights
#Human rights
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Right
#People
#Will
#Government
#Wisdom
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Life
#Liberty
#Spiritual
#Rights
#Survival
#Happiness
#Pursuit
#Human rights
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#People
#World
#Computers
#Talking
#Internet
#Globalization
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Will
#Children
#Peace
#Killing
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Freedom
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Life
#Democracy
#Experience
#Infinite
#Variety
#Adversity
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Will
#Children
#War
#May
#Peace
#Evil
#Killing
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#World
#Weapons
#War
#Peace
#Leading
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#People
#Dreams
#Beliefs
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Christ
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.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#People
#Goals
#Man
#Enemies
#Hatred
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#People
#Will
#Hurt
#American
#Wrong
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#God
#Public
#Will
#Belief
#Duty
#Service
#Religious
#Divorce
#Conflict
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#God
#Public
#Will
#Belief
#Duty
#Service
#Religious
#Divorce
#Conflict
You just have to have a simple faith.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Faith
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Disease
#Aggression
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,
American
President
#President
#Men
#states
#United
#Women
#Hate
#Gay
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Strength
#School
#Spiritual
#Nation
#Principles
#Ceremony
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Christ
#Teaching
#Hate
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Wife
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.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#President
#Balance
#Press
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Time
#Discrimination
I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Country
#Cause
#Disgrace
#Potential
#Terrorism
#Excuses
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,
American
President
#Now
#Thought
#Iraq
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,
American
President
#God
#Will
#Heart
#Women
#Lust
#Adultery
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#First
#History
#Control
#Destiny
#Health
#Awareness
#Habits
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Day
#Living
#Benefits
#Globalization
Testing oneself is best when done alone.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Testing
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Interest
#Decisions
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Love
#Will
#Children
#Honor
#Earth
#Peace
#Nature
#Gifts
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Fear
#Failure
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Love
#Art
#Language
#Nature
#Music
My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Now
#Society
#Military
#Women
#Decision
#Profession
#Obvious
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,
American
President
#People
#President
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Vision
#Men
#Future
#Republicans
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Policy
#Sense
#Soul
#Rights
#Human rights
#Foreign policy
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Fear
#Achievement
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy Carter,
American
President
#Support
#Work
#Rights
#Heroes
#Human rights
#Oppression
#Victims