Policy Quotes by Jimmy Carter

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Jimmy Carter

And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a…

— Jimmy Carter

It's politically impossible for any member of Congress to make a public statement condemning or criticizing the policies of Israel. It would…

— Jimmy Carter

I believe that the boycott that we have against Cuba is counterproductive, and it also makes the twelve million or so Cuban…

— Jimmy Carter

A lot of the things that we passed in the energy policy were embedded in law, and they resulted in tremendous reductions…

— Jimmy Carter

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

— Jimmy Carter

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama…

— Jimmy Carter

George Bush asked me if there was anything he could do for me, and I said, "Yes, you can help promote peace…

— Jimmy Carter

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

The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to…

— Jimmy Carter

It is the fundamental right of every American, as guaranteed by the first amendment of the Constitution, to worship as he or…

— Jimmy Carter

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd…

— Jimmy Carter

I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of…

— Jimmy Carter

Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or…

— Jimmy Carter

The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year…

— Jimmy Carter

A nation's domestic and foreign policies and actions should be derived from the same standards of ethics, honesty and morality which are…

— Jimmy Carter