Jimmy Carter Quotes

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (talking about the Iraq war)

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

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.

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world.

We only have to recall the color of the faces of those who were most devastated by Katrina, to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit.

Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.

After all these years, I still feel like a boy when I'm on a stream

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

Within the stable economy it's necessary to eliminate all forms of sexual discrimination, and to provide women for the first time in our history with economic opportunities equal to those of men.

History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.

The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is Jews! Those offended include Arabs, Jews, and English teachers.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

I have come to realize that in every person there is something fine and pure and noble, along with a desire for self-fulfillment.

I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.

I can't think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would be political suicidal for them to do so.

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

Unfortunately, some of the African leaders employ various nefarious means to remain in office far beyond what their constitutions permit.

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.

Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving.

I'm 86, and too old to be President.

In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.

I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.