Best Jimmy Carter Quotes
52 Jimmy Carter quotes by 49 unique authors
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Europeans have always thought of U.S. presidents as either naive, as they did with Jimmy Carter, or as cowboys, as they did with Lyndon Johnson,…
— George Friedman
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Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.
— Newt Gingrich
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Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for…
— Ann Coulter
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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.
— Ted Cruz
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Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.
— Gerald R. Ford
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Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They…
— Joe Klein
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Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous…
— Rush Limbaugh
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It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the…
— Jon Meacham
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The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter.
— Marco Rubio
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When it comes to jobs, President Obama makes the Jimmy Carter years look like good old days. If we fired Jimmy Carter then, why would…
— Paul Ryan
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Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.
— Mort Sahl
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In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has…
— Helen Thomas
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In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980,…
— George Will
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In the last 100 years only Presidents George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford lost their bids for reelection. President Lyndon Johnson did not…
— Juan Williams
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If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me.
— Andrew Young
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President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed.
— Andrew Young
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I only remember a few things about Jimmy Carter. He had big lips and liked peanuts. I now know that Jimmy Carter was and is…
— Kurt Cobain
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Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting himself as a…
— Noam Chomsky
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If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the…
— Oliver North
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The post-presidency, as Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton have proved, is a win-win. Money, Nobels, the ability to leverage your global celebrity for any cause…
— Tina Brown
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The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
— Paul Cook
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John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be…
— Thomas Mallon
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I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last…
— Cliff Stearns
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