Jimmy Carter Quotes

• No energy crisis exists now that equates in any way with those we faced in 1973 and 1979, … World supplies are adequate and reasonably stable, price fluctuations are cyclical, reserves are plentiful, and automobiles aren’t waiting in line at service stations. Exaggerated claims seem designed to promote some long-frustrated ambitions of the oil industry at the expense of environmental quality.

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• Deeply concerned about continued reports of political violence, internal displacement of the population, the activities of armed militias unchecked by the government and police action that have violated basic political rights and freedoms.

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• Those were difficult days in the Middle East because in 25 years, four terrible wars had taken place. There was practically no hope that any agreement could possibly be reached.

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• Not a single word of that peace treaty has been violated by either side.

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• They still have punch cards in the poorer sections of Florida, while there was electronic voting in the more wealthy areas.

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• The top priority in the international community at this time.

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• Keep control of the military situation.

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• Just two candidates have asked my opinion about whether they should run for president or not, and I’ve advised both of them to become candidates, and he’s one of them.

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• I think they have been seriously disillusioned, but whether it would have been more accurately predicted if I had been in the White House or someone else, I wouldn’t claim that at all.

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• There was no doubt that we could prevail militarily, but I think that the vice president and secretary of defense and others said that we were going to be treated with euphoria, crowds who would welcome us there, and the problems of administration of Iraq’s economic and political affairs was going to be an easy job.

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• The greatest threat in the world to regional and global peace.

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• 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.

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• Our dominant international challenge is to restore the greatness of America — based on telling the truth, a commitment to peace, and respect for civil liberties at home and basic human rights around the world.

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• To safeguard the security of our nation.

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• I am proud to call Lieutenant John Kerry my shipmate, and I am ready to follow him to victory in November.

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• Showed up when assigned to duty, and he served with honor and distinction.

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• Unilateral acts and demands have isolated the United States from the very nations we need to join us in combating terrorism.

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• A cowardly attack on innocent civilians brought us an unprecedented level of cooperation and understanding around the world.

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• The essential decency, compassion and common sense of the American people will prevail.

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• We differ, Mr. Castro and I, on the definition of democracy.

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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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