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Jimmy Carter
October 1, 1924 -
Nationality: American
Category: President
Subcategory: American President

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

   

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.

   

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

   

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

   

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

   

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

   

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

   

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

   

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

   

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

   

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.

   

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.

   

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

   

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.

   

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

   

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

   

It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

   

My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

   

You just have to have a simple faith.

   

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

   

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