We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of
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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 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 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.
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JIMMY CARTER What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm e...
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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...
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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 I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that som...
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...
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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 Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups!
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FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. �...
VICE PRESIDENT DAN QUAYLE He was clearly a very, very bright guy. He was a very hardworking guy in addition to being brilliant...
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