Jimmy Carter
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.Collection: Peace
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.Collection: Computers
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.Collection: War
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.Collection: Dreams
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.Collection: God
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.Collection: Peace
Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.Collection: Leadership
Testing oneself is best when done alone.Collection: Alone
Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.Collection: Peace
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.Collection: Love
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.Collection: Failure
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.Collection: Freedom
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.Collection: Peace
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.Collection: Equality
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.Collection: Experience
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.Collection: Politics
In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'Collection: Graduation
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.Collection: Wisdom
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'Collection: Knowledge
When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.Collection: Peace
I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.Collection: Environmental
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.Collection: Faith
I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.Collection: Attitude
I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.Collection: Equality
You just have to have a simple faith.Collection: Faith
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.Collection: Patriotism
We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.Collection: Peace
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.
Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
I'm a Southerner.
There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
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.
I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.
There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.