In the Great Depression in which I grew up and remember vividly, unemployment was over 25 percent, and over 35 percent where I lived. A grown man would work all day, 16 hours, for a dollar. I remember hundreds of… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Prostitution thrives in the United States. We focus in this country on punishing the girls. For every brothel owner or pimp or male customer, there are 50 girls who are arrested for being prostitutes. Other countries have tried the other… — 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
