Many 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 CARTERI’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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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 will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
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All 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.
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Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
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Every 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.
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If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
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Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of … permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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Life is just too short to go quail hunting with the wrong people.
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I want to make it clear,if there is ever a conflict [between environmental quality and economic growth], I will go for beauty, clean air, water, and landscape.
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I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
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