White house Quotes by Jimmy Carter

8 White house quotes by Jimmy Carter

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Carter’s calm, thoughtful tone shines in these eight short passages, giving a quick sense of his perspective on the White house.

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We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need…

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I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that…

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

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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House, the residence…

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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and…

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We have seven and a half times as many people in prison. And we have eight times as many black women in…

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I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

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I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited…

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One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and…

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I think politicians really go with the tide.

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There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

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Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be…

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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself, and where they…

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No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an…

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Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

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Southerners, whose ancestors a hundred years ago knew the horrors of a homeland devastated by war, are particularly determined that war shall never come…

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I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of…

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Faith implies a continuing search, not necessarily a final answer.

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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…

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

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

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Everyone has a right to peaceful coexistence, the basic personal freedoms, the alleviation of suffering, and the opportunity to lead a productive life...

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Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally.…

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