Jimmy Carter Quotes
39th U.S. President
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.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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.
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.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each others children.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
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.
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.
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint.
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.
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.
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.