America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
No matter where you go in the world in any country in Africa or Latin America and other place, you will find… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill - do not… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The heartfelt sympathy and friendship offered to America after the 9/11 attacks, even from formerly antagonistic regimes, has been largely dissipated; increasingly… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The election of Barack Obama was a very wonderful step forward for America, which has unfortunately been tainted by the ugly reaction… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Superfund legislation set up a system of insurance premiums collected from the chemical industry to clean up toxic wastes. This new… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
America has always been a country of innovation and dynamism, entrepreneurship. And I think that one of the things that has made… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
America has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history...… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself, and where they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life... — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share
