My mother's influence to take on new challenges and do what I though was right even though sometimes the consequences politically speaking… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
One of the turning points of my life was when I got my first bait-casting outfit. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Habitat has opened up unprecedented opportunities for me to cross the chasm that separates those of us who are free, safe, financially… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Throughout my life, I've seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people's lives. I know the personal value of service… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.” — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize… — 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
In the life of the human spirit, words are action, much more so than many of us realize who live in countries… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Genocide, in my opinion - is an attempt by a powerful group completely to eradicate from the face of the Earth the… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
In a nation that was proud of hard work, strong families, close-knit communities, and our faith in God, too many of us… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
