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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.

Jimmy Carter

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.
JIMMY CARTER

Commitment Forgiveness Lust Myself Woman
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
JIMMY CARTER

Discrimination Myself Quite Race Time
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
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Believe Country History Ourselves People Time Worst
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.
JIMMY CARTER

Country Demand Discussion Inheritance Problem Serious
I’d like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.
JIMMY CARTER

Human Peace Remember Right
Throughout my life, I’ve seen the difference that volunteering efforts can make in people’s lives. I know the personal value of service as a local volunteer.
JIMMY CARTER

Difference Effort Life Myself People Volunteer
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

Concentration Decision Difficult Lock
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
JIMMY CARTER

Aggression Angry Sick
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

Myself Public Religious Service Violation
It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.
JIMMY CARTER

Determination Failure Fear Necessary
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
JIMMY CARTER

Art Boundary Language Love Music Nature Social Transcendence
Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.
JIMMY CARTER

Consumption Ourselves Worship
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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Different Ourselves People Sin
Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
JIMMY CARTER

Damage Drugs Possession
This view that women are somehow inferior to men is not restricted to one religion or belief. It is widespread. Women are prevented from playing a full and equal role in many faiths.
JIMMY CARTER

Equality Faith Inferior Play Prevent View Woman
I’m not in favor of the government mandating a prayer in school because our country was founded on the fact that no particular religious faith would have ascendance over or preferential treatment over any other.
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Country Fact Faith Government Myself Prayer Religious

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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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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