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The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

Jimmy Carter
Work, Equality, Want

There are two major peace agreements. One is a comprehensive peace agreement that was consummated by the extremely beneficial intersession of the George Bush administration, who called on John Danforth, the former senator from Missouri, to negotiate a peace agreement after eight years during which President Clinton did not want to promote peace in the Mideast - I mean, in Sudan. And that's holding so far.

Jimmy Carter
Mean, President, Clinton

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.

Jimmy Carter
Israel, Egypt, Land
"Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a modern, fast-changing, technological world. I use headlines, interfaith and that sort of thing.

Jimmy Carter
Teaching, Years, Church
"Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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.”

Jimmy Carter
Book, Home, Sunday
"Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

Nearly all inmates are drawn from the ranks of the powerless and the poor. A child of privilege frequently receives the benefit of the doubt; a child of poverty seldom does.

Jimmy Carter
Children, Doubt, Doe
Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

Because we are free, we can never be indifferent to the fate of freedom elsewhere.

Jimmy Carter
Fate, Indifferent, Elsewhere
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.287, e-artnow sro

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

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
Inspirational, Funny, Graduation
United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.

Jimmy Carter
Struggle, Better Life, Should

I believe that we should do anything we can to minimize abortion and not to encourage it.

Jimmy Carter
Believe, Abortion, I Believe
Source: www.christianpost.com

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

Jimmy Carter
Feel Better, Feelings, Schedules
Source: www.wbur.org

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, Senior, Israel
"The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.

Jimmy Carter
Busy, Stills, Staying
Source: www.wbur.org

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

Jimmy Carter
Country, Thinking, Confusion
"Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'". www.foxnews.com. July 30, 2005.

I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Jimmy Carter
Party, Thinking, Race

On human rights, civil rights and environmental quality, I consider myself to be very liberal. On the management of government, on openness of government, on strengthening individual liberties and local levels of government, I consider myself a conservative. And I don't see that the two attitudes are incompatible.

Jimmy Carter
Attitude, Rights, Government
Jimmy Carter (1998). “Conversations with Carter”, p.51, Lynne Rienner Publishers

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. We have programs in over 65 countries.

Jimmy Carter
Country, Years, Snow

It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

Jimmy Carter
Important, Needs, Matter

In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

Jimmy Carter
Giving, Justice, Judging
Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.

Jimmy Carter
President, Bed, Finals
"Piers Morgan Tonight", edition.cnn.com. January 18, 2012.

We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.

Jimmy Carter
Weakness, Idealism, Nations
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James Knox Polk, Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Milhous Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama (2017). “Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition”, p.287, e-artnow sro

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Jimmy Carter
California, Political, Politics
"As Jerry Brown Touts California In China, Its Citizens Pack Their Bags" by David Davenport, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 12, 2013.

I happen to be a scientist. My background is in nuclear physics. I was a nuclear engineer. But I don't see any incompatibility at all with my religious faith and God the creator of everything and the incompatibility between when the earth was created as specified in the Bible. I don't see any incompatibility there because those that were interpreting God's overall message didn't know anything about modern-day science.

Jimmy Carter
Religious, Messages, Nuclear

We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

Jimmy Carter
Pain, Grandparent, Joy
United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”