It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
JIMMY CARTER
America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
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It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
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I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
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We have a tendency to condemn people who are different from us, to define their sins as paramount and our own sinfulness as being insignificant.
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One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.
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The stronger the ties that bind us to God, the more likely we are to live, react, and behave in harmony with…greater joy, peace, and happiness.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
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It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
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We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
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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.
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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
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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.
JIMMY CARTER