Jimmy Carter Quotes (198 Quotes)

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

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

This is an unprecedented commitment by the international community being deeply and permanently involved,

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

As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students,

A cowardly attack on innocent civilians brought us an unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world,

Unilateral acts and demands have isolated the United States from the very nations we need to join us in combating terrorism,

At the end of a very difficult political year -- more difficult for some of us than others -- it is valuable for the world to see two Democrats and two Republicans assembled together all honoring the great nation that has permitted us to serve,

It is up to the opposition parties to decide either to join or boycott the parliament,

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

The Israeli mothers want peace, the Palestinian mothers want peace, Lebanese mothers want peace and Syrian mothers want peace, ... To me that's the foundation of hope.

We urge the leaders of the new parliament, both ruling party and opposition, to work together to devise new rules and practices to ensure that all voters' interests are represented in parliament,

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.

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.

The president is right about the wisdom of conservation, and the need for the government to lead -- even if his own administration's energy policies make a mockery of Carter's wise conservation proposals of the 1970s. Sure some will dismiss Bush's conservation call as just the latest act of post-Katrina political theater scripted by Karl Rove. But who knows Perhaps Bush, who has staked his presidency on a global crusade to defend energy supplies from threats to the American way of life, ... If we fail to act soon, we will face an economic, social and political crisis that will threaten our free institutions.

Menachem Begin was a courageous man who went to Camp David with deep commitments of a political nature to his own party and his people against making concessions, ... But at Camp David, more than I, more than Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin showed political courage to conclude an agreement.

Former President Jimmy Carter recently affirmed his optimism for the future of nuclear energy while highlighting the important role it has played in the United States during a visit to American Electric Power's Cook Nuclear Plant. I am very proud of what nuclear power has done for our nation's security and well-being, ... I think the future holds great opportunities for nuclear power because safety has improved, technology has improved and environmental quality has improved.

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

I am deeply grateful that President Bush has taken this initiative and this bold step, because I know that some key people in his administration didn't even want to increase development assistance at all,

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

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

There was no doubt that we could prevail militarily, but I think that the vice president and secretary of defense and others said that we were going to be treated with euphoria, crowds who would welcome us there, and the problems of administration of Iraq's economic and political affairs was going to be an easy job,

Everybody agrees in Nicaragua that these are the most calm and gentlemanly campaigns they've ever seen, ... There is no evidence of animosity.

The overall concern is that 40 percent of the American people don't vote. Secondly, that there's a great deal of doubt in our country about the integrity of the electoral process. Those are the two basic issues. What can we do to address them Obviously we want to have more access by Americans to the voting booth. And secondly, we want to make sure that the electoral process has integrity -- that it is not shot through with fraud.

He had to do the same thing I did when I went to Washington, and that is to choose people who were very experienced in previous administrations, ... And I also chose a very experienced vice president, (Walter) Fritz Mondale, who kind of tided me over into my learning process when I got to Washington.

We differ, Mr. Castro and I, on the definition of democracy.

We've gone to a couple of places, almost seven. The turnout has been very impressive and orderly,

It was difficult for them personally with the civil liberties of both husband and wife violated, and they became the targets of secret government wiretapping and other surveillance.

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

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

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

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

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.

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

No energy crisis exists now that equates in any way with those we faced in 1973 and 1979, ... World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful, and automobiles aren't waiting in line at service stations. Exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality.

I want to choose the strongest Democratic candidate.

Those were difficult days in the Middle East because in 25 years, four terrible wars had taken place. There was practically no hope that any agreement could possibly be reached,

I have never been convinced ... that Jesus Christ would approve abortion, ... I did everything I could under Roe vs. Wade ... to minimize the need for abortion.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

There's a fairly painful procedure of plucking out all the child's eyelashes...and treatment beyond that to prevent a recurrence of the illness,

Bill Clinton brought insight wisdom and determination to bear on the issues that he addressed. He was a leader who could inspire other people to go beyond what they thought were their own limits, to join him in accomplishing great goals,

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.

Seen from the air, it is very clear that this disaster is worse than the earthquake of 1972, ... I have known other cases of disaster, and I know the worst is yet to come -- cholera and dengue.

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

The rapid advances that have taken place in the last 12 years are the most impressive thing about the entire Mexican political process,

I would look on such a decision as a violation of mutual commitments made over the years, with a damaging effect on Habitat's reputation and effectiveness,

with a serious handicap as they enter college or private life where freedom of speech will be permitted.

At the present time, his chances in Iowa and New Hampshire look quite, quite good. After that, though, he'll go through a much wider range of states, including some in the deep South. And I think that's much more uncertain,