Jimmy Carter Quotes

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

America is constantly involved in unnecessary wars.

When I ran, I didn't have any money. Now, it requires raising hundreds of millions of dollars just to get the nomination, and I don't care to be involved in that process.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls - nothing else compares with that, in horror.

I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

I don't laugh at people any more when they say they've seen UFOs. I've seen one myself!

If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the scientists. I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

I will never lie to you.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.

We don't have any problem finding enough things to do; the problem we have is making sure we don't overload ourselves inadvertently.

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.

One of my greatest pleasures is being on the farmland that's been in the family since 1833.

We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us; and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what "born again" means.

It's important to meet with the people who can shape future events, and who might be causing a current problem. And to ignore them means that the problem will continue.

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

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.

You always get back much more than you give.

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

Iran is an island of stability in a turbulent corner of the world

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

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

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

When I reflect upon my blessings during my very nice lifetime, I am inspired to make sure that I spend the balance of the days of my existence in a productive way.

We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.

One of our nation's greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.

Although military, economic and political strength certainly favors the more powerful side, the matter of simple justice is a counterbalancing factor.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.