President Quotes by Jimmy Carter

I'm 86, and too old to be President.

— Jimmy Carter

I enjoyed being President.

— Jimmy Carter

I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.

— Jimmy Carter

My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.

— Jimmy Carter

I can get up at 8am and be rested... or I can get up at 5am and be President.

— Jimmy Carter

I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.

— Jimmy Carter

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

— Jimmy Carter

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is…

— Jimmy Carter

I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging…

— Jimmy Carter

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president…

— Jimmy Carter

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

— Jimmy Carter

I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a…

— Jimmy Carter

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to…

— 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

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure…

— Jimmy Carter

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I…

— Jimmy Carter

As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.…

— Jimmy Carter

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But…

— Jimmy Carter

The most important Bible teaching that I remembered when I was in the Navy and when I was Commander-in-Chief, was that we…

— Jimmy Carter

My faith has helped me to adjust to life whether I was a small farm boy, a submarine officer, governor, president or…

— Jimmy Carter

Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always…

— Jimmy Carter

When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare…

— Jimmy Carter

I think there's an awakening now of a realization that we too early congratulated ourselves on the end of racial prejudice and…

— Jimmy Carter

The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless…

— Jimmy Carter

“This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 million human beings among the…

— Jimmy Carter

I would like people to remember that I kept the peace when I was president and I worked for peace, that I…

— Jimmy Carter

I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my…

— Jimmy Carter

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

Before I became President, in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, there had been fairly dramatic, and I think excessive, reductions in…

— Jimmy Carter

I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was…

— Jimmy Carter

Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president…

— Jimmy Carter

As far as being in dangerous situations around the world is concerned, I always have a Secret Service detail with me as…

— Jimmy Carter

If I become President, I'll make every piece of information this country has about UFO sightings available to the public, and the…

— Jimmy Carter

I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed…

— Jimmy Carter

I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president,…

— Jimmy Carter

If I were president, I'd be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There's no…

— Jimmy Carter

The President publicly apologized today to all those offended by his brother's remark, There's more Arabs in this country than there is…

— Jimmy Carter

It's clear that the true problems of our Nation are much deeper - deeper than gasoline lines of energy shortages, deeper even…

— Jimmy Carter

My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I've acquired has been…

— Jimmy Carter

It's abominable, and it's a disgrace to a great democracy to see what's happened in our country. The main reason for that…

— Jimmy Carter