We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
– Jimmy Carter
We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the well-being of the
Palestinians.
– Jimmy Carter
Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all
neighbors in a global community.
– Jimmy Carter
If the misery of others leaves you indifferent and with no feeling of sorrow, then you cannot
be called a human being.
– Jimmy Carter
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
– Jimmy Carter
Go out on a limb. That’s where the fuit is.
– Jimmy Carter
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
– Jimmy Carter
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common
denominator of human achievement.
– Jimmy Carter
Human identity is no longer defined by what one does but rather by what one owns.
– Jimmy Carter
I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A.
– Jimmy Carter
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social
boundaries.
– Jimmy Carter
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil,
never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
– Jimmy Carter
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
– Jimmy Carter
Our government now has a strange and unprecedented and pervasive policy of not speaking
to anybody who doesn’t agree with us in advance on controversial issues. So we close the
door, we go into a closet and pout.
– Jimmy Carter
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs,
different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
– Jimmy Carter
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our
sense of nationhood.
– Jimmy Carter
I can’t deny I’m a better ex-president than I was a president.
– Jimmy Carter
With massive arsenals still on hair-trigger alert, a global holocaust is just as possible now,
through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.
– Jimmy Carter
We are a purely idealistic Nation, but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
– Jimmy Carter
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
Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change,
to strict conservation and to the use of coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like
solar power.
– Jimmy Carter
The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.
– Jimmy Carter
For instance, I have never believed that Jesus Christ would approve either abortions or the
death penalty, but I obeyed such Supreme Court decisions to the best of my ability, at the
same time attempting to minimize what I considered to be their adverse impact.
– Jimmy Carter
The drug culture has shaped at least one major chance since the Sixties; It became the basis
for overloading our prisons.
– Jimmy Carter
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
– Jimmy Carter
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public
are an important part of our democratic society.
– Jimmy Carter
Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the
drug itself.
– Jimmy Carter
The life of Palestinians is almost intolerable.
– Jimmy Carter
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something. My faith demands that I do
whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to
try to make a difference.
– Jimmy Carter
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration
(Bush) has been the worst in history.
– Jimmy Carter
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the
environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human
competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God’s
standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
– Jimmy Carter
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic
system is worthy of emulation.
– Jimmy Carter
Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
– Jimmy Carter
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
– Jimmy Carter
It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who
have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
– Jimmy Carter
Watch me closely during the campaign because I won’t be any better a president than I am a
candidate.
– Jimmy Carter
We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of
the weapons of war.
– Jimmy Carter
In my opinion, the embargo strengthens Castro and perpetuates communism in Cuba.
– Jimmy Carter
We did not need to go into Iraq. We went in there under false pretenses.
– Jimmy Carter
And, I think a lot of the violence that takes place now in the streets of Iraq are caused by
the fact that American troops are still there. I think that will in itself that change will
automatically reduce the terrorism considerably.
– Jimmy Carter
When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.
– Jimmy Carter
Christmas has been a season of mixed interests and meanings, but the very foundation, of
course, is its religious significance. No matter what other personal desires or crises we have
faced, I’ve never forgotten that this is the time to celebrate the birth of the Baby Jesus, and
the impact of this event on the history of the world.
– Jimmy Carter