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Jimmy Carter Quotes - Page 13

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The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that

The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.

Marijuana, Years, Drug

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

Fate, Individual, Our Future

United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Holy Land.

Israel, Agreement, Land

Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.753, Simon and Schuster

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

Thinking, President, Speech

"Piers Morgan Live", edition.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

I thought then and I think now that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust and I think the premises on which it was launched were false.

Thinking, Iraq, Unjust

"Former President Carter Addresses Faith, Justice, and Iraq War at Baptist Centenary" by Maria Mackay, www.christianpost.com. July 30, 2005.

When you invade Grenada, or when you invade Panama to capture a disreputable person, or when you bomb the Bosnia area, you can always find justification for those military actions, but it's really surprising how many times in those 25 years - that's a long time - the United States has interceded, I wouldn't say most of the time militarily, but a lot of those have been military actions.

Military, Long, Action

I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement.

Thinking, Years, Done

I would say the biggest handicap we have right now is some nutcases in our country that don't believe in global warming. I think they are going to change their position because of pressure from individuals, because the evidence of the ravages of global warming is already there.

Country, Believe, Thinking

No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find that China is very deeply involved in the affairs of that country.

Country, Latin, America

Interview with Andrea Useem, bigthink.com. November 30, 2010.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

Country, War, United Nations

"Jimmy Carter on His New Book Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 31, 2014.

I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I espoused human rights in its broadest definition, not only freedom of speech but freedom of assembly, freedom of worship and trial by jury but also the right of people for people to have a decent home to live, food to eat, employment, healthcare, self respect, dignity. So I think the broad gamut of human rights, peace and freedom. I would like to be remembered for those things to the degree that I deserve it and I still have a long way to go.

Home, Thinking, Self

I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.

Opportunity, Rights, Government

The National Security Archive Interview, nsarchive.gwu.edu.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

Years, Thirty, Introspective

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

I think I governed effectively. I don't have any doubts about that. I had the benefit, when I was in office, of having an excellent relationship with the Republican Party. We had superb bipartisan support and we had the highest batting average of any president since the Second World War, except Lyndon Johnson. He had a little better average than I did.

War, Party, Thinking

"39th U.S. President President Jimmy Carter". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2010.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

Government, Organization, World

"Jimmy Carter on Eradicating the Guinea Worm 'This Horrible, Obnoxious Disease'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. December 17, 2010.

America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.

Country, Children, America

Source: www.christianpost.com

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Life, Religious, Freedom

People would ask me how I could stand the long campaigning, how I could stand being charged with the responsibilities of a great nation, one of the most powerful and difficult jobs in the world. It wasn't any more difficult than picking cotton all day or shaking peanuts.

Inspirational, Jobs, Powerful

It is clear that global challenges must be met with an emphasis on peace, in harmony with others, with strong alliances and international consensus. Imperfect as it may be, there is no doubt that this can best be done through the United Nations, not merely to preserve peace but also to make change, even radical change, without violence.

Inspirational, Strong, Business

Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.1027, Simon and Schuster

I think I would have been much more attuned to the concerns of people who were desperately in need. I was unfamiliar, for instance, with the plight of those living in the small villages in the deserts and the jungles of Africa.

Thinking, People, Plight

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

Common Sense, Car, Alternatives

Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the existence of people because of their ethnic makeup or because of their race or religion, and that was the case with Hitler trying to exterminate the Jews, and that was the case in Rwanda, when the Tutsis were attacked and over 500,000 were killed in two or three days.

Powerful, Makeup, People

I think it was fully justified after 9/11 to initiate a military action against Afghanistan, because we hoped to create a democracy, and have a flourishing economy, and to do away with al-Qaida, and to capture Osama bin Laden.

Military, Thinking, Democracy

It would be naïve to think that peace and justice can be achieved easily. No set of rules or study of history will automatically resolve the problems ... However, with faith and perseverance, ... complex problems in the past have been resolved in our search for justice and peace.

Perseverance, Peace, Past

Jimmy Carter (1984). “Negotiation, the Alternative to Hostility”

George Bush asked me if there was anything he could do for me, and I said, "Yes, you can help promote peace in Sudan after eight years of different policy." And he said, "I'll do it." So to make a long story short, he did it, not necessarily because I requested it, but they were very successful.

Successful, Long, Different

Born: b. October 1, 1924
Occupation: 39th U.S. President

Quotes: 495

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