Jimmy Carter quote: "I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My faith demands -- this is not optional -- my faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference."

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
JIMMY CARTER

A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them ...
JIMMY CARTER

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
JIMMY CARTER

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism,...
JIMMY CARTER

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of m...
JIMMY CARTER

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker t...
JIMMY CARTER

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It...
JIMMY CARTER

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER

Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the Pres...
JIMMY CARTER

According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge...
JIMMY CARTER

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I ...
JIMMY CARTER

Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford a...
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

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
JIMMY CARTER

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a relea...
JIMMY CARTER

We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and som...
JIMMY CARTER

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different y...
JIMMY CARTER

This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.
JIMMY CARTER

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I wil...
JIMMY CARTER

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human ...
JIMMY CARTER

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
JIMMY CARTER

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ...
JIMMY CARTER

I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God kno...
JIMMY CARTER

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New ...
JIMMY CARTER

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did every...
JIMMY CARTER

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obam...
JIMMY CARTER

There's a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level...
JIMMY CARTER

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don't have any doubt in...
JIMMY CARTER

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
JIMMY CARTER

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he neve...
JIMMY CARTER

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
JIMMY CARTER

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Lu...
JIMMY CARTER

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
JIMMY CARTER

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a...
JIMMY CARTER

Testing oneself is best when done alone.
JIMMY CARTER

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social bound...
JIMMY CARTER

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage...
JIMMY CARTER

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTER

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense o...
JIMMY CARTER

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet ...
JIMMY CARTER

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happine...
JIMMY CARTER

There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of...
JIMMY CARTER

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

I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primaril...
JIMMY CARTER

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experienc...
JIMMY CARTER

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'...
JIMMY CARTER

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a modera...
JIMMY CARTER

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of ou...
JIMMY CARTER

All my playmates on the farm were black, and later, when I started school in Plains, it was all whit...
JIMMY CARTER

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent...
JIMMY CARTER

My great-grandfather and his two brothers fought at Gettysburg. They were in artillery, and they sur...
JIMMY CARTER

When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by ...
JIMMY CARTER

I think all Americans believe in human rights. And health is an often overlooked aspect of basic hum...
JIMMY CARTER

When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a vi...
JIMMY CARTER

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, ...
JIMMY CARTER

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn&...
JIMMY CARTER

I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a ver...
JIMMY CARTER

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never...
JIMMY CARTER

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances ...
JIMMY CARTER

There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. ...
JIMMY CARTER

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children ...
JIMMY CARTER

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the ...
JIMMY CARTER

I think, in many people's minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ances...
JIMMY CARTER

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much o...
JIMMY CARTER

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of ...
JIMMY CARTER

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make y...
JIMMY CARTER

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this centur...
JIMMY CARTER

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. Spech in March 1976.
JIMMY CARTER

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
JIMMY CARTER

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant ...
JIMMY CARTER

Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice.. stated in articles written for NY Time...
JIMMY CARTER

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm e...
JIMMY CARTER

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
JIMMY CARTER

We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this centur...
JIMMY CARTER

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itsel...
JIMMY CARTER

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to...
JIMMY CARTER

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians spo...
JIMMY CARTER

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is tha...
JIMMY CARTER

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was Presiden...
JIMMY CARTER

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christi...
JIMMY CARTER

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means ...
JIMMY CARTER

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never com...
JIMMY CARTER

I have been reluctant to publicly castigate an administration, but I think this particular administr...
JIMMY CARTER

We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, whi...
JIMMY CARTER

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families ...
JIMMY CARTER

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our prac...
JIMMY CARTER

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing ever...
JIMMY CARTER

I think the government ought to stay out of the religious business
JIMMY CARTER

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
JIMMY CARTER

The overall concern is that 40 percent of the American people don't vote. Secondly, that there's a g...
JIMMY CARTER

free, honest, open and without any violence of any kind.
JIMMY CARTER

As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the w...
JIMMY CARTER

Under his leadership, Atlanta thrived and the state benefited as well,
JIMMY CARTER

The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bu...
JIMMY CARTER

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease
JIMMY CARTER

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to exp...
JIMMY CARTER

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
JIMMY CARTER

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children ...
JIMMY CARTER

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president...
JIMMY CARTER

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
JIMMY CARTER

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.
JIMMY CARTER

The election process demonstrated significant advances in Ethiopia's democratization process, includ...
JIMMY CARTER

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights ...
JIMMY CARTER

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is ...
JIMMY CARTER

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount an...
JIMMY CARTER

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify...
JIMMY CARTER

[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Flo...
JIMMY CARTER

The proposed nuclear deal with India is just one more step in opening a Pandora's box of nuclear pro...
JIMMY CARTER

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
JIMMY CARTER

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the con...
JIMMY CARTER

Everybody agrees in Nicaragua that these are the most calm and gentlemanly campaigns they've ever se...
JIMMY CARTER

While Mr. Trudeau was in office and I was president in 1977, we celebrated the signing of the Panama...
JIMMY CARTER

I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't ...
JIMMY CARTER

Iran is a signatory of a [nuclear] nonproliferation treaty,
JIMMY CARTER

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed...
JIMMY CARTER

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - b...
JIMMY CARTER

When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even ...
JIMMY CARTER

Kings Bay could certainly be expanded to accommodate a larger contingent of ships and personnel, and...
JIMMY CARTER

It's emotional to see the appreciation and the dedication that these African people have when they l...
JIMMY CARTER

It makes the surface of the moon look like a golf course.
JIMMY CARTER

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are...
JIMMY CARTER

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between Go...
JIMMY CARTER

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon
JIMMY CARTER

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrat...
JIMMY CARTER

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
JIMMY CARTER

Overall, I have been pleased with my trip and I recognized far in advance that after 43 years of mis...
JIMMY CARTER

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a cris...
JIMMY CARTER

We didn't understand clearly enough the feeling of many Panamanians that the arrangement implied an ...
JIMMY CARTER

I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost.
JIMMY CARTER

Go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.
JIMMY CARTER

This was not a popular treaty,
JIMMY CARTER

We addressed this with a great deal of hesitancy,
JIMMY CARTER

The election process demonstrated significant advances in Ethiopia's democratization process, includ...
JIMMY CARTER

I am deeply grateful that President Bush has taken this initiative and this bold step, because I kno...
JIMMY CARTER

We have 11 grandchildren and two of them have been afflicted with lazy eye.
JIMMY CARTER

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weap...
JIMMY CARTER

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and ...
JIMMY CARTER

I don't profess to speak for other active and retired submariners, but I believe that, overwhelmingl...
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

Our delegation members and others witnessed serious irregularities and overt electoral fraud in a nu...
JIMMY CARTER

I've been writing poems since I was in the Navy - to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poe...
JIMMY CARTER

I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think t...
JIMMY CARTER

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That n...
JIMMY CARTER

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict betwee...
JIMMY CARTER

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict betwe...
JIMMY CARTER

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever...
JIMMY CARTER

It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
JIMMY CARTER

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant th...
JIMMY CARTER

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
JIMMY CARTER

I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I shoul...
JIMMY CARTER

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures...
JIMMY CARTER

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there ha...
JIMMY CARTER

as Iraq has become the pre-eminent obsession of political leaders and the general public.
JIMMY CARTER

I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worr...
JIMMY CARTER

I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectiv...
JIMMY CARTER

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
JIMMY CARTER

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of...
JIMMY CARTER

I'm a Southerner.
JIMMY CARTER

I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can c...
JIMMY CARTER

I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was ...
JIMMY CARTER

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
JIMMY CARTER

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

JIMMY CARTER

This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 m...
JIMMY CARTER

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its v...
JIMMY CARTER

Put on a sweater.
JIMMY CARTER

The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli governm...
JIMMY CARTER

Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.. words to dehumanize and demonize.
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the pattern...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Sh...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

There was false propaganda by the administration that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will no...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It'...
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER

I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president.
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
JIMMY DEAN

No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate ch...
JIMMY KIMMEL

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to...
JIMMY PAGE

I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.
JIMMY KIMMEL

Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
JIMMY DEAN

Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
JIMMY DURANTE

I do have a treadmill desk in my office, and for a while, I would walk on it while checking email an...
JIMMY KIMMEL

I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
JIMMY WALKER

There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense pr...
JIMMY SMITS

Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colle...
JIMMY BRESLIN

Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat...
JIMMY IOVINE

Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.
JIMMY IOVINE

My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
JIMMY IOVINE

Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
JIMMY BRESLIN

I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave dec...
JIMMY HILL

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
JIMMY RUSHING

I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN

My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN

You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN

I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN

I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN

I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN

A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN

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