Jimmy Carter Quotes:- Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter Jr. born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A Democrat, he previously served as a Georgia State senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Carter has remained active in public life during his post-presidency, and in 2002 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work in co-founding the Carter Center.
As president, Carter sought to portray himself as a man of the people, dressing informally and adopting a folksy speaking style. He introduced a number of ambitious programs for social and economic reform and included a relatively large number of women and minorities in his cabinet. Despite Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, Congress blocked Carter’s proposal for welfare reform, as well as his proposal for a long-range energy program, a central focus of his administration. This difficult relationship with Congress meant that Carter was unable to convert his plans into legislation, despite his initial popularity.
Inspirational Jimmy Carter Quotes
“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”-“-Jimmy Carter
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, human rights invented America.”-Jimmy Carter
“At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.”-Jimmy Carter
“Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Wisdom
“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.”-Jimmy Carter
“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy because human rights are the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”-Jimmy Carter
“I don’t think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort – again, referring to Fox Broadcasting – to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Speech
“I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speechmaker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.”-Jimmy Carter
“I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on the environment, and things of that kind.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Democratic
“I had just as much support from Republicans as I did Democrats when I ran for president. But I should have organized the Democratic Party to get me re-elected.”-Jimmy Carter
“I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.”-Jimmy Carter
“I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.”-Jimmy Carter
“I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.”-Jimmy Carter
“I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Swimming
“I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.”-Jimmy Carter
“I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally – and I still feel that way.”-Jimmy Carter
“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”-Jimmy Carter
“I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.”-Jimmy Carter
“I think politicians really go with the tide.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Sports
“I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sportsperson. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time before my brother Billy came along.”-Jimmy Carter
“I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.”-Jimmy Carter
“If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.”-Jimmy Carter
“If you fear to make anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”-Jimmy Carter
“If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.”-Jimmy Carter
“I’m a Southerner.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Abortion
“In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are moderate in any respect – if you’re a moderate on abortion, if you’re a moderate on gun control, or if you’re a moderate in your religious faith – it doesn’t devolve into a crusade where you’re either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.”-Jimmy Carter
“In this outward and physical ceremony, we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'”-Jimmy Carter
“It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”-Jimmy Carter
“It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Gay
“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.”-Jimmy Carter
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”-Jimmy Carter
“My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbors.”-Jimmy Carter
“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.”-Jimmy Carter
“My favorite president and the one I admired most was Harry Truman.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Differences
“My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.”-Jimmy Carter
“My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.”-Jimmy Carter
“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.”-Jimmy Carter
“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.”-Jimmy Carter
“Testing oneself is best when done alone.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Freedom
“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.”-Jimmy Carter
“The Carter Center has the only existing international task force on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.”-Jimmy Carter
“There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Perception
“There’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.”-Jimmy Carter
“To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.”-Jimmy Carter
“Too many of us now tend to worship self-indulgence and consumption.”-Jimmy Carter
“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”-Jimmy Carter
“We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.”-Jimmy Carter
“We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Women
“We must make it clear that a platform of ‘I hate gay men and women’ is not a way to become president of the United States.”-Jimmy Carter
“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.”-Jimmy Carter
“We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”-Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter Quotes On Think
“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.”-Jimmy Carter
“Whatever starts in California, unfortunately, has an inclination to spread.”-Jimmy Carter
“When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that’s a violation of basic human rights.”-Jimmy Carter
“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”-Jimmy Carter
“You can’t divorce religious belief and public service I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.”-Jimmy Carter
“You just have to have a simple faith.”-Jimmy Carter
