Jimmy Carter Quotes (34 quotations)
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1. Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. - Jimmy Carter
2. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter
3. An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint. - Jimmy Carter
4. 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. - Jimmy Carter
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. - Jimmy Carter
9. I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. - Jimmy Carter
10. 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
11. I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost. - Jimmy Carter
12. I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. - Jimmy Carter
13. If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. - Jimmy Carter
14. If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. - Jimmy Carter
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jimmy Carter
19. 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
20. New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. - Jimmy Carter
21. One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. - Jimmy Carter
22. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. - Jimmy Carter
23. Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. - Jimmy Carter
24. 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
25. The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life. - Jimmy Carter
2. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. - Jimmy Carter
3. An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint. - Jimmy Carter
4. 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. - Jimmy Carter
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. - Jimmy Carter
9. I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. - Jimmy Carter
10. 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
11. I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost. - Jimmy Carter
12. I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. - Jimmy Carter
13. If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. - Jimmy Carter
14. If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. - Jimmy Carter
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. - Jimmy Carter
19. 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
20. New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. - Jimmy Carter
21. One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. - Jimmy Carter
22. Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings. - Jimmy Carter
23. Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. - Jimmy Carter
24. 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
25. The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life. - Jimmy Carter
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