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Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter (born 1924) is an American politician and humanitarian who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. After his presidency, Carter became globally recognized for his extensive humanitarian work, including Habitat for Humanity and conflict resolution efforts, earning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Computers

All Quotes by Jimmy Carter

“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.”

— Jimmy Carter

Peace

“The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.”

— Jimmy Carter

History

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Leadership

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Nature

“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

Men

“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

— Jimmy Carter

Dreams

“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.'”

— Jimmy Carter

Graduation

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Environmental

“On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.”

— Jimmy Carter

Peace

“It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.”

— Jimmy Carter

Government

“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.”

— Jimmy Carter

Freedom

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Patriotism

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Peace

“It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”

— Jimmy Carter

Failure

“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”

— Jimmy Carter

Art

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Attitude

“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

Peace

“I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn't at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.”

— Jimmy Carter

Faith

“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.”

— Jimmy Carter

Government

“My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.”

— Jimmy Carter

Peace