I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
JIMMY CARTERI think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
JIMMY CARTERAll I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and as filled with love as are the American people.
JIMMY CARTERI’ve never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn’t over yet.
JIMMY CARTERWe will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTERWherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
JIMMY CARTERI’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
JIMMY CARTERWhat are the things that you can’t see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love…They’re the guiding lights of a life.
JIMMY CARTERWe must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
JIMMY CARTERMany of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.
JIMMY CARTERAmerica did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTERWhether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.
JIMMY CARTERThe measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
JIMMY CARTERA fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
JIMMY CARTEREveryone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a release from whatever other cares the day may bring.
JIMMY CARTEREvery advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
JIMMY CARTERCommunicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
JIMMY CARTER