Jimmy Carter (Politician)

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.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

— Jimmy Carter art

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 war

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

— Jimmy Carter hope

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

— Jimmy Carter man

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

— Jimmy Carter soul

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

— Jimmy Carter time

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

— Jimmy Carter faith

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

— Jimmy Carter faith

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

— Jimmy Carter time

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

— Jimmy Carter time

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 grace

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

— Jimmy Carter people

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

— Jimmy Carter want

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

— Jimmy Carter war

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

— Jimmy Carter self

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 love

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

— Jimmy Carter living

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 life

We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

— Jimmy Carter people

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

— Jimmy Carter love

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

— Jimmy Carter life

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

— Jimmy Carter men

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

— Jimmy Carter think

— Jimmy Carter people

In repudiating extremism, we need to recommit ourselves to a few common-sense principles that should transcend partisan differences. First, we cannot enhance our own security if we place in jeopardy what is most precious to us, namely the centrality of human rights in our daily lives and in global affairs. Second, we cannot maintain our historic self-confidence as a people if we generate public panic. Third, we cannot do our duty as citizens and patriots if we pursue an agenda that polarizes and divides our country. Next, we cannot be true to ourselves if we mistreat others. And finally, in the world at large, we cannot lead if our leaders mislead.

— Jimmy Carter art

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