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== Quotes by Jimmy Carter ==
=== Pre-Presidency===
*At the end of a long campaign, I believe I know the people of our state as well as anyone. Based on this knowledge of Georgians North and South, Rural and Urban, liberal and conservative,''' I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.'''
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* I have nothing against a community that is made up of people who are Polish, or who are Czechoslovakians, or who are French Canadians or who are blacks trying to maintain the ethnic purity of their neighborhoods. This is a natural inclination. … Government should not break up a neighborhood on a numerical basis. As soon as the Government does, the white folks flee.
** Widely criticized remarks intended as support of open-housing laws, but specifying opposition to government efforts to "inject black families into a white neighborhood just to create some sort of integration" (April 1976), quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130814013247/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,914056,00.html "THE CAMPAIGN: Candidate Carter: I Apologize"] in [[Time (magazine)|''TIME'' Magazine]] (19 April 1976)
* '''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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* Democracy’s great recent successes — in [[India]], [[Portugal]], [[Spain]], [[Greece]] — show that our confidence in this system is not misplaced. '''Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear.''' I’m glad that that’s being changed. <br /> For too many years, we’ve been willing to adopt the flawed and erroneous principles and tactics of our adversaries, sometimes abandoning our own values for theirs. We’ve fought fire with fire, never thinking that fire is better quenched with water. This approach failed, with Vietnam the best example of its intellectual and moral poverty. But through failure we have now found our way back to our own principles and values, and we have regained our lost confidence. <!-- By the measure of history, our Nation’s 200 years are very brief, and our rise to world eminence is briefer still. It dates from 1945, when Europe and the old international order lay in ruins. Before then, America was largely on the periphery of world affairs. But since then, we have inescapably been at the center of world affairs. -->
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20121108160301/http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=727 Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (22 May 1977)]
* '''Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself'''. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.
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* History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that '''aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.'''
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20160519165112/http://millercenter.org/president/carter/speeches/speech-3403 Speech on Afghanistan (4 January 1980)]
* A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future, a party whose leaders are inclined to shoot from the hip, a party that has never been willing to put its investment in human beings who are below them in economic and social status.
** Remarks on the Republican party, at a fundraiser in Hollywood, Florida, as quoted in "Carter Attacks Reagan Tax Cut, Seeks Debates," The Washington Post, (18 July 1980), Pg. A1; this has often become misquoted as [https://web.archive.org/web/20150221160024/http://message.snopes.com/showthread.php?t=9752 "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."]
==== Inaugural Address (1977) ====
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* '''Iraq is an unjust war. ''' I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false.
** News conference at the Baptist World Alliance's centenary conference in Birmingham, England (30 July 2005), as quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20111230152510/http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,164229,00.html "Carter: Iraq War is 'Unjust'" in ''FOX News'' (30 July 2005)]
*'''I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.'''
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* Since I was 18 years old, I have taught the Bible. For the last fifteen or twenty years, I have taught every Sunday when I was home or near my own house, so that would be 35 or 40 times per year. Half of those Sundays, the text comes from the Hebrew Bible. I have had a deep personal interest in the Holy Land and in the teachings of the Hebrew people. God has a special position for the Jewish people, the Hebrews, or whatever. I know the difference between ancient Israel and Judaea, and I know the history. '''I don’t have any problem with the Jewish people.'''
** As quoted in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160314142147/http://nymag.com/news/politics/48675/index2.html "Who’s Afraid of Jimmy Carter?" by Amy Wilentz, in ''New York Magazine'' (20 July 2008)]
{{quote| I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years...
| [http://www.haaretz.com/news/in-west-bank-carter-speaks-of-his-love-for-the-palestinians-1.277860 In West Bank, Carter speaks of his love for the Palestinians], June 13, 2009 }}
{{quote| There is an inherent feeling among many in this country that an African-American should not be president.
|[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/6196028/Jimmy-Carter-says-Joe-Wilsons-attack-on-Barack-Obama-was-based-on-racism.html Jimmy Carter says Joe Wilson's attack on Barack Obama was 'based on racism'], ''The Daily Telegraph'', September 16, 2009}}
{{quote| I guess my biggest failure was not getting reelected. [The loss taught me] not to ever let American hostages be held for 444 days in a foreign country without extracting them. I did the best I could, but I failed.
|[http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/46375.html Interview with Big Think, in reference to the 1980 presidential election, and the Iran hostage crisis, December 14, 2010].}}
{{quote|'''War and good health are incompatible'''. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.
|[https://web.archive.org/web/20101228060534/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/25/ap/health/main7183775.shtml Jimmy Carter Vs. Guinea Worm: Sudan Is Last Battle], in reference to his effort to eradicate Guinea worm disease in Africa.}}
{{quote|I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.
|[http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57570712/jimmy-carter-obama-thanked-my-grandson-who-discovered-romneys-47-video/ (Feb 22, 2012)]}}
{{quote| America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.
|[http://www.ibtimes.com/nsa-controversy-jimmy-carter-says-us-has-no-functioning-democracy-1351389 NSA Controversy: Jimmy Carter Says U.S. "Has No Functioning Democracy"] Referring to mass surveillance by the government in the United States.}}
==== Nobel lecture (2002) ====
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* I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the generally accepted goals of society are peace, freedom, human rights, environmental quality, the alleviation of suffering, and the rule of law.
* '''The unchanging principles of life predate modern times.''' I worship [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] Christ, whom we Christians consider to be the Prince of Peace. As a Jew, he taught us to cross religious boundaries, in service and in love. He repeatedly reached out and embraced Roman conquerors, other Gentiles, and even the more despised Samaritans. <br>Despite theological differences, all great religions share common commitments that define our ideal secular relationships. I am convinced that Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Jews, and others can embrace each other in a common effort to alleviate human suffering and to espouse peace. <br>But the present era is a challenging and disturbing time for those whose lives are shaped by religious faith based on kindness toward each other. '''We have been reminded that cruel and inhuman acts can be derived from distorted theological beliefs, as suicide bombers take the lives of innocent human beings, draped falsely in the cloak of God's will. With horrible brutality, neighbors have massacred neighbors in Europe, Asia, and Africa. <br>In order for us human beings to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is in itself a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy and grace, their lives lose all value. We deny personal responsibility when we plant landmines and, days or years later, a stranger to us — often a child – is crippled or killed. From a great distance, we launch bombs or missiles with almost total impunity, and never want to know the number or identity of the victims.'''
* '''The most serious and universal problem is the growing chasm between the richest and poorest people on earth. Citizens of the ten wealthiest countries are now seventy-five times richer than those who live in the ten poorest ones, and the separation is increasing every year, not only between nations but also within them.'''
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* I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in [[Jesus Christ|Jesus]] Christ, the Prince of Peace.
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