Quotes by Jimmy Carter

About Jimmy Carter:

James Earl Carter, Jr. is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center.
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My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Jimmy Carter

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton.

Jimmy Carter

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Jimmy Carter

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.

Jimmy Carter

When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me or how that applies to the audience that I'm teaching in a ...

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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.

Jimmy Carter

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

Jimmy Carter

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.

Jimmy Carter

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something . . . I'm free to choose what that something is, and the something I've chosen is my faith. Now, my faith goes beyond theology and religion and requires considerable work and effort. My fa...

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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private fo...

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

Jimmy Carter

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

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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

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

Jimmy Carter

The first time I ever saw snow skis was when I was 62 years old and that was 19 years ago and I'm still skiing. So, we'll be skiing with some very close friends of the Carter Center letting them know what the Carter Center is doing around the world. ...

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

Jimmy Carter

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

Jimmy Carter

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Jimmy Carter

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.

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I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 s...

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Author Bio

  • NameJimmy Carter
  • DescriptionAmerican politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)
  • AliasesJimmy E. Carter; James Earl Carter Jr.; James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr; James E. Carter; Jimmy Earl Carter; James Carter; James Earl Carter; 39th President of the United States; James Earl "Jimmy" Carter; President Carter; President Jimmy Carter; James E. Carter Jr.; James Earle Carter; James "Jimmy" Carter; James Earl (Jimmy) Carter; James Earl Carter, Jr.
  • BornOctober 1, 1924
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionOfficer; Diplomat; Novelist; Politician; Farmer; Autobiographer; Submariner
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; United Nations Prize In The Field Of Human Rights; Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize; Congressional Space Medal Of Honor; Indira Gandhi Prize; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Medal; Philadelphia Liberty Medal; American Peace Award; Delta Prize For Global Understanding; International Mediation Medal; Ansel Adams Award