Jimmy Carter Quotes

• Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process, … There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president.

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• In 1988, there was no doubt that the election was shot through with fraud. In 1994, there was tremendous improvement. In 1996, the major parties got together and helped to evolve a new electoral law that made an independent commission to conduct the whole election.

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• The existing and long-standing use of the word ‘evolution’ in our state’s textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians’ belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe.

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• With a serious handicap as they enter college or private life where freedom of speech will be permitted.

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• They put limits on financing which is something we need to do in the United States as well, and they also helped to guarantee that the major candidates and even the minor candidates had access to the news media, which is something else which is admirable.

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• The rapid advances that have taken place in the last 12 years are the most impressive thing about the entire Mexican political process.

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• Under his leadership, Atlanta thrived and the state benefited as well.

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• This proposal for permanent normal trade relations with China will be enormously beneficial for both the United States and Chinese workers.

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• I have been reluctant to publicly castigate an administration, but I think this particular administration has departed from all previous presidents, … Our Endangered Values.

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• 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.

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• To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

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• Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

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• You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

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• Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

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• One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting.

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• I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost.

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• 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.

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• The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.

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• 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.

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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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