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Jimmy Carter Quotes


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

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.

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.

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

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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

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.

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

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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.

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

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

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

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

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

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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.