Jimmy Carter Quotes

As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as one of the privileges of a former President.

Ahmadinejad is just a buffoon, sort of a clown on the international scene who tries to be provocative so he can get his name in the paper and his face on television.

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.

I have a lot of pleasures but I don't feel guilty about them.

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.

The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.

I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying.

Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

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

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.

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

We cannot change the history of the past.

We cannot know the mystery of the future.

We cannot ignore our gift of the future.

Put on a sweater.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

God answers all our prayers. Sometimes the answer is yes. Sometimes the answer is no. Sometimes the answer is you've got to be kidding!

I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.

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.