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Jimmy Carter quotes

“A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.” — Jimmy Carter

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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.” — Jimmy Carter

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“An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“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

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“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.” — Jimmy Carter

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“I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.” — Jimmy Carter

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“I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.” — Jimmy Carter

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“If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“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

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“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“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

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“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.” — Jimmy Carter

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“The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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

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“There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.” — Jimmy Carter

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“To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” — Jimmy Carter

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“We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.” — Jimmy Carter

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“What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.” — Jimmy Carter

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“Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.” — Jimmy Carter

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“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.” — Jimmy Carter

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“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.” — Jimmy Carter

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“You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.” — Jimmy Carter

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