Carter Quotes · Page 5

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.

— Walter Annenberg

There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't.

— Robert Dallek

I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama.

— Jimmie Johnson

Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.

— Earl Sweatshirt

“You don't trust anyone, no one except Carter. Go to Carter. He'll take care of everything. He'll take care of you, Ems.…

— Tijan

Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald…

— Kathleen Troia McFarland

“You'd think an angel who hung around with employees of evil would be a good influence, but at times, he seemed worse…

— Richelle Mead

“If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults”

— Chelsea Fine

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon -…

— Bob Dole

No, but ..." But I had felt something from another person. Someone who spent time with Alec. The last card in my…

— Richelle Mead

“I doubted there was any part of Charleston she could show Carter that he didn't know about. Carter had been around to…

— Richelle Mead

No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Liberals are constantly wrong. In fact, that's how you rise to the top in liberalism, by being wrong. If you are wrong,…

— Rush Limbaugh

I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic…

— Dan Auerbach

How does it taste?” Carter wondered. Zia smiled. “Stick out your tongue.” To answer Carter’s question, the tattoo tasted like burning car…

— Rick Riordan

Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn’t mention that his pink boxer shorts were…

— Rick Riordan

John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he…

— Thomas Mallon

I would like to dissolve the $10 billion national Department of Education created by President Carter and turn schools back to the…

— Ronald Reagan

Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level…

— Rush Limbaugh

I spent a lot of 2012 going around the country saying that President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president…

— Bobby Jindal

Benny [Carter] opened the eyes of a lot of producers and studios, so that they could understand that you could go to…

— Quincy Jones

This is not the colonial empire that somehow he has in his hand. I’ve never felt that from him. I felt that…

— Rudy Giuliani

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins,…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I am somewhat influenced by the years that I've spent trying to actually get things done, whether it was reforming education in…

— Hillary Clinton

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

— Gaddis Smith

Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools.

— Susan Ford

...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her…

— Edward Gorey

“Carter thought the Universe was a lot like God, except that the Universe didn't have a book telling you how to be…

— Marshall Thornton

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

— Mort Sahl

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

— Lester Maddox

I'm looking for a president that'll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter.

— Rudy Giuliani

They know where Carter at, straight off the launchin pad marching on the moon muthafuka I've been to Mars and back.

— Lil Wayne

My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.

— Daryl Sabara

Joe Henderson with Ron Carter and Al Foster at the Vanguard was just wow. And the energy of the three of them.

— Jon Gordon

The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

— Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,'

— Barack Obama

The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. “Wax,” Carter pronounced. “Fascinating.

— Rick Riordan

I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter…

— Kurt Cobain

Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education.

— Miles Davis

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

— Gerald R. Ford