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Jimmy Carter Quotes

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

You just have to have a simple faith.

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

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

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.

Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

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.

You can not 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.

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

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

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

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

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

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

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

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

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

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.

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

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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