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Jimmy Carter Quotes - Page 18

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People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

Hype, People, Over You

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no.

Thinking, Israel, Two

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

If one of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then the death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated.

Country, Doubt, Guilt

"America divided on death penalty, Troy Davis". www.cnn.com. September 22, 2011.

That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.

Differences, Growing, Months

Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.

God, Political, Religion

Jimmy Carter (1975). “Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years”, p.134, University of Arkansas Press

The blood of Abraham, God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God--an anguished cry for peace.

Christian, Father, Blood

Jimmy Carter (2010). “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

In this great country of ours, it is inexcusable that so many children grow up in poverty and despair. The well-being of our children must be the national priority and the responsibility of every individual.

Country, Children, Growing Up

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.

Memorable, Government, People

In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries where freedom of expression is taken for granted. The leaders of totalitarian nations understand this very well. The proof is that words are precisely the action for which dissidents in those countries are being persecuted.

Country, Taken, Expression

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

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

Night, Should Have, Sound

Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other way around, and it works beautifully...they bring the charges against the brothel owners and the pimps and the male customers, and they do not prosecute the girls, who quite often are brought into that trade involuntarily. It works quite well, by the way.

Girl, Country, Reality

It is generally not known in the world that, in the years preceding 1916, there was a concerted effort made to eliminate all the Armenian people, probably one of the greatest tragedies that ever befell any group. And there weren't any Nuremberg trials.

Years, People, Effort

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

There were two unpleasant surprises [about Washington]. One was the inertia of Congress, the length of time it takes to get a complicated piece of legislation through ... and the other was the irresponsibility of the press.

Two, Pieces, Surprise

From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.

Ties, Islam, United States

United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence of the leaders of our country. At that time, commercial electricity was not economically feasible, but President Harrison wanted to affirm his confidence in the technological capability of our country.

Country, Technology, White

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

Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.

Decision, Death Penalty, Moral

Jimmy Carter (2005). “Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

Islam, United States, Natural

United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.

Christian, Religious, Stars

"Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal". edition.cnn.com. January 30, 2004.

We will have an unchallenged, open, panoramic opportunity on a global scale to demonstrate the finest aspects of what we know in this country: peace, freedom, democracy, human rights, benevolent sharing, love, the easing of human suffering. Is that going to be our list of priorities or not?

Inspirational, Country, Business

"Jimmy Carter on The American Dream". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.

Wire, Way, Hours

[Jerry Brown] is California's way of celebrating the Year of the Child.

Children, Years, California

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

Home, Patriotic, Blessing

Jimmy Carter's Farewell Address, January 14, 1981.

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.

4th Of July, Adversity, Patriotic

1978 Address to the Parliament of India, 2 Jun.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

Agreement, Looks, Way

"Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast WORDS OF WISDOM The former president offers encouragement to new U.S. envoy - and the rest of us. Q&A". Interview with Bill Lambrecht, www.stltoday.com. February 1, 2009.

I think the Israelis are beginning to realize more that they are moving toward a one-state solution, which would be a catastrophe for Israel.

Moving, Thinking, Israel

"Carter is upbeat about peace talks in Mideast WORDS OF WISDOM The former president offers encouragement to new U.S. envoy - and the rest of us. Q&A". Interview with Bill Lambrecht, www.stltoday.com. February 1, 2009.