3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter We can’t equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.’
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter There’s no doubt that usually a president’s public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.
3 December 2020 Jimmy Carter If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
