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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself - always changing, infinite in it's variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 Quotes)
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
The energy crisis has not yet overwhelmed us, but it will if we do not act quickly. It’s a problem that we will not be able to solve in the next few years, and it’s likely to get progressively worse through the rest of this century. We must not be selfish or timid if we hope to have a decent world for our children and grandchildren. We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
When the laws are written and administered by the most powerful leaders in a society, it is human nature for them to understand, justify, and protect the interests of themselves and people like them. Many injustices arise from this natural human failing (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
If any agreement between two nations is to last, it must serve the best interests of both nations (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference,... It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made our country great too is its heterogeneous population where people come here from all over the world (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
Always I’m working on some of book. That’s the way I make a living (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
I just look at death as not a threat. It’s inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
Even for the world’s only superpower, the ends don’t always justify the means (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
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 (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
Quite often... these little guys, who might be making atomic weapons or who might be guilty of some human rights violation... are looking for someone to listen to their problems and help them communicate (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president (Jimmy Carter Quotes)
If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you (Jimmy Carter Quotes)