Jimmy Carter Quotes on Countries (9 Quotes)

Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process, ... There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president.

I think the current situation in Iraq and the continued violence in Iraq and the substantial abandonment of Afghanistan -- where we only control the capital in Kabul and the rest of the country is being taken over by warlords and the Taliban is coming back -- I think those kinds of things are inevitably going to be placed on the agenda for almost all the candidates,

There have always been abnormalities in elections including in my own country, the United States. My hope is opposition party members would take their seats in parliament and ensure that voters' interests are represented,

I don't think there's any doubt (the election) will bring an end to violence and open up the country to immediate economic improvement,

As I am today, I was concerned about human rights, and I was concerned about the well-being of the working people of this country,

Also in 2004, there was a substantial aversion of the Democratic leaders to demonstrate - maybe failure is a better word than aversion - to demonstrate a compatibility with the deeply religious people in this country. I think that absence hurt a lot.

We didn't understand clearly enough the feeling of many Panamanians that the arrangement implied an element of colonialism and subjugation and not an equal representation of leaders from two sovereign countries, ... This created a need for later presidents to address the controversy.

I personally had, at the beginning, some very serious reservations about this issue, ... This will be, I think, a move forward in getting more people to vote. It would not restrict people from voting. It will be uniformly applied throughout the country, and it will be nondiscriminatory.

Despite the increase in giving, the United States is at the very bottom of all the rich countries in being generous to others, ... We give about one one-thousandth of our gross national product to humanitarian aid in other countries, including AIDS and everything else.