Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
JIMMY CARTERGod always answers prayers. Sometimes it’s ‘yes.’ Sometimes the answer is ‘no.’ Sometimes it’s ‘you gotta be kidding.
More Jimmy Carter Quotes
-
-
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
JIMMY CARTER -
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
JIMMY CARTER -
We cannot resort to simplistic or extreme solutions which substitute myths for common sense.
JIMMY CARTER -
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.
JIMMY CARTER -
One of our nation’s greatest leaders of all time was Hubert Horatio Hornblower.
JIMMY CARTER -
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.
JIMMY CARTER -
We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
JIMMY CARTER -
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.
JIMMY CARTER -
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
JIMMY CARTER -
Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.
JIMMY CARTER -
America has no functioning democracy at this moment.
JIMMY CARTER -
We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.
JIMMY CARTER -
Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
JIMMY CARTER -
We simply must have faith in each other, faith in our ability to govern ourselves, and faith in the future of this Nation. Restoring that faith and that confidence to America is now the most important task we face.
JIMMY CARTER -
Trust is very much a part of our democracy.
JIMMY CARTER