Jimmy Carter Quotes

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.

Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.

I'm not a mediator or a negotiator. I don't want to be one.

"Adjust to changing times but sticking to unchanging principles" - committing me and all Americans to real ideals of justice and truth, no matter what difficulties faced us.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

Our Income Tax System is a disgrace to the human race.

I think my wife ... is sure of my loyalty.... She knows how hard I work. She knows how tired I am every night. She knows I have fifty or sixty reporters watching me day and night.

Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are characteristic of the individual citizens of the nation.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

But love must be aggressively translated into simple justice.

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.

In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions in waste of energy in all kinds of things.

I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.

Thomas Jefferson declared, stating that he was speaking on behalf of the other founding fathers, ...(that) we should build a wall between the church and state.

My wish is peace for Israel and for Israel's neighbors.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.

We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.

I don't think there's going to be peace as long as Israel is occupying land that belongs to the Palestinians, to Lebanon and to Syria.

I enjoyed being President.

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

The government ought to stay out of the prayer business.

I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

People who have lust in their heart as just as guilty as those who commit adultery.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

Then when [ISIS] moved into Iraq, the Sunni Muslims didn’t object to their being there and about a third of the territory in Iraq was abandoned.