Quotes by Jimmy Carter - Page 3

I advocate the modification of the '67 borders to let about half of the Israeli stay in Palestine.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Borders
Half
Modification
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If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Agreement
Lasts
Two Nations
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We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
America
Desire
Doe
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The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Girl
Abuse
Powerful
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There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Peace
War
Combat
Differences
Honest
Reconciliation
Attempt
Before
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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Carter
Giving
Hero
Human Rights
Oppression
Rights
Heroes
Center
Victims
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The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Iraq
People
World
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I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Intrigued
President Bush
Bush
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Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Bread
Luxury
Salt
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Christ
Complacency
Contrary
Hate
Our Lives
Smugness
Teaching
Directly
Prevail
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Clear
Communicate
Prayer
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I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Feel Better
Feelings
Schedules
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God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Body
Human Body
Kicks
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Art
Love
Music
Nature
Design
Boundaries
Common
Common Language
Language
Political
Social
Love Nature Music
Love Nature Art
Like
Transcend
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I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Chance
Men
Believe
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Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Common Sense
Conservation
Energy
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The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Health
Doctors
Powerful
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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Benefits
Dollars
Globalization
Illiterate
Memorable
Come
Totally
Living
Day
Dollar
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I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Boys
Father
Path
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I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Ducks
Experts
Turkeys
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I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Jesus
Facts
Water
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We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Peace
War
Champion
Memorable
Weapons
War Peace World
Both
Leading
We Cannot
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It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Communication
People
Tragic
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My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Differences
People
Position
Way
Always People Way
Nonviolent
Resolved
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I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Jesus
Believe
Grace
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Funny
Graduation
Inspirational
Fear
Achievement
Common
Common Denominator
Lowest
Mad
Anyone
Denominator
Probe
Making
Ultimately
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War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
War
Disease
Way
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The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Heart
Israel
Issues
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Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Inspirational
Motivational
Foreign Policy
Human Rights
Policy
Rights
Soul
Human
Foreign
Sense
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There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
War
Doubt
No Doubt
President
Public Image
Appeal
Enhanced
Image
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You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Government
Given
Responsibility
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There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Agreement
Looks
Way
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Drug Use
Marijuana
Weed
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We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Kids
Life
Strength
Differences
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I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Believe
Church
Presidential
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God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Answers
Prayer
Sometimes
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God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Religion
Answers
Prayer
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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.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Jesus
Challenges
Thinking
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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Constant
Israel
Numbers
Prayer
Process
Bring
Number
Foreign
My Number One
Neighbours
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Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Night
Should Have
Sound
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I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Dream
Differences
Making A Difference
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Best Way
Democratic
Emulation
Land
Memorable
Way
Worthy
Here
Enhance
Lands
System
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Suffering
Together
Working Together
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Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Borders
Boundaries
Community
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I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Believe
Letting Go
People
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The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Dignity
House
Situation
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The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Culture
Drug
Prison
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I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Israel
Lebanon
Thinking
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We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Men
Clear
Gay
Hate
Men And Women
President
States
United States
Men Women Hate
Women Men Gay
Women Men Hate
Platform
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I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.
Jimmy Carter / 39Th U.s. President
Gay People Way
Favor
Marry
Legally
Permitted
Personally
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