Jimmy Carter Quotes

• We didn’t understand clearly enough the feeling of many Panamanians that the arrangement implied an element of colonialism and subjugation and not an equal representation of leaders from two sovereign countries, … This created a need for later presidents to address the controversy.

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• This is an important statement which I have already shared with the U.S. government, … As the recent tragic attack on Sarajevo has demonstrated, peace will not come easily, but there is good reason to take Karadzic’s statement and put it to the test, and to seek comparable efforts from all the other parties involved, to move rapidly to talks.

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• I still pray for peace…between the Israelis and the Palestinians, between the Israelis and the Jordanians and Lebanese and Syrians, … I pray that God will have his hand on the shoulders of those who still seek peace.

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• 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.

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• I think the current situation in Iraq and the continued violence in Iraq and the substantial abandonment of Afghanistan — where we only control the capital in Kabul and the rest of the country is being taken over by warlords and the Taliban is coming back — I think those kinds of things are inevitably going to be placed on the agenda for almost all the candidates.

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• The legislation introduced by Sen. Murkowski not only opens up this precious and so far unspoiled area of Alaska, but also destroys, to a great degree, the protection that has been built into other legislations concerning air pollution, water pollution and other things.

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• In a few months, I will, God willing, enter my 81st year of my life, and in many ways the last few months have been some of the most disturbing of all.

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• 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.

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• The election process demonstrated significant advances in Ethiopia’s democratization process, including most importantly the introduction of a more competitive electoral process, which could potentially result in a pluralistic, multiparty political system.

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• There have always been abnormalities in elections including in my own country, the United States. My hope is opposition party members would take their seats in parliament and ensure that voters’ interests are represented.

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• I would look on such a decision as a violation of mutual commitments made over the years, with a damaging effect on Habitat’s reputation and effectiveness.

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• I am concerned about the adverse economic impact on the New London area, the abandonment of a huge installation of facilities and, less quantitatively, a loss of some of the proud submariners’ heritage of our historic association with service and training at New London.

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• I don’t profess to speak for other active and retired submariners, but I believe that, overwhelmingly, the consensus would be that transferring the submarine forces from New London would be militarily deleterious.

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• We have 11 grandchildren and two of them have been afflicted with lazy eye.

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• This would go a long way to deter any kind of temptation to fraud.

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• Kings Bay could certainly be expanded to accommodate a larger contingent of ships and personnel, and this region would welcome the additional jobs that may be transferred from Connecticut.

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• Also in 2004, there was a substantial aversion of the Democratic leaders to demonstrate – maybe failure is a better word than aversion – to demonstrate a compatibility with the deeply religious people in this country. I think that absence hurt a lot.

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• This is just one indication of what has been done under this administration to change the policies that have persisted all the way through our history.

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• A saving factor was that there was no nationwide pattern to favor any one party.

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• Our delegation members and others witnessed serious irregularities and overt electoral fraud in a number of states.

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Jimmy Carter (192)

Birth:	1st October, 1924
Nationality:	American
Profession:	President

About

James Earl Carter Jr. (Jimmy Carter) was born in Plains, Georgia, USA. He is an American Democratic politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He served as the 76th Governor of Georgia from 1971-1975. He served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1967. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center. He earned a BS degree from US Naval Academy, Annapolis in 1946. In 1943, he joined the United States Navy and served on submarines. He left the Navy later in 1953 to return to his home state Georgia, where he worked as a peanut farmer. He has written several books include: Why Not the Best?, A government as good as its people, Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, Everything to gain (with Rosalynn Carter), Talking peace, Living Faith, Sources of strength, An hour before daylight (memoir, Nominations: Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography), Christmas in Plains (memoir), and Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. He married to Rosalynn Smith in 1946. They have three sons and one daughter.

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