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Jimmy Carter Quotes - Page 17

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We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

We consider these settlements to be contrary to the Geneva Convention, that occupied territory should not be changed by establishment of permanent settlements by the occupying power.

Israel, Territory, Establishment

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

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no downside to it.

Israel, President, Palestinian

When I feel something very intensely or deeply or personally, I can go to extremes of self-expression or self-analysis by writing a poem - more than I can just talking to somebody or writing prose.

Writing, Self, Expression

Source: www.sfgate.com

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.

Lying, Issues, Controversial

I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and white supremacy. And that was a feeling that we had when I was president, that we had pretty much overcome that problem.

Thinking, White, Feelings

Source: www.sfgate.com

Building confidence and constructive relations between Sudan and South Sudan is urgent

Building, Relation, Constructive

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

Country, Block, Dark

The major violence now is because of a plethora, explosion almost, of rebel groups, all of whom oppose the government, and they're fighting each other, strangely precipitated by the fact that the United Nations and African Union has now planned peace talks.

Fighting, Rebel, Violence

Nobody knows when you make an effort or when you plant a seed if it will bear fruit or not.

Effort, Plant, Nobody Knows

The evidence shows that investing in women and girls delivers major benefits for society. An educated woman has healthier children. She is more likely to send them to school. She earns more and invests what she earns in her family.

Girl, Children, School

"Losing my religion for equality". www.theage.com.au. April 27, 2017.

This afternoon, I've arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.

Illumination, Afternoon, Ceremony

United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

During the period of the Saturn-Apollo missions we were pilgrims in space, ranging from home in search of knowledge. Now we will become shepherds tending our technological flocks, but like the shepherds of old, we will keep our eyes fixed on the heavens.

Home, Eye, Space

United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1979). “Jimmy Carter”

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.

Change, War, President

"Mr President for good" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2004.

Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.

Country, Japan, Alternatives

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.

Powerful, Law, Justice

Jimmy Carter (2011). “Living Faith”, p.113, Three Rivers Press

Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

War, Political, Guilt

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.

Real, Oil, Independence

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

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.

People, Generosity, Degrees

But I am not discouraged. I do not despair for our country. I believe tonight, as I always have, that the essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

Country, Believe, Compassion

"Carter: 'At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul'". edition.cnn.com. July 27, 2004.

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

Long, Environmental, Care

Carter, Jimmy (1977). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1977”, p.967, Best Books on

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.

Children, Selfish, Years

I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

Faith, Thinking, Sight

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

Powerful, Health, Doctors

The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means.

Mean, Land, Yugoslavia

There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.

Mass Destruction, Tyrants, Iraq

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

Quotes: 495

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