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Jimmy Carter
American
President
Born:
Oct 1
,
1924
Me
Peace
People
Think
Will
You
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
Jimmy Carter
Beautiful
Dreams
People
Become
Melting
Melting Pot
Hopes
Pot
Mosaic
Yearnings
Different
Different Beliefs
Different People
Beliefs
We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.
Jimmy Carter
Life
Democracy
Political
My Life
Seen
Become
Think
Worst
System
Moral
Instead
Been
American
Political System
Ethical
Standards
Now
Ever
Oligarchy
Basic
Damage
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
Jimmy Carter
Rights
Invent
Sense
Human Rights
Invented
Real
Very
America
Did
Human
Real Sense
I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.
Jimmy Carter
Me
You
Confidence
Lie
Statement
Tell
Betray
Never
Had
Misleading
Make
Issue
Any
Controversial
Avoid
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
God
Me
Heart
Women
Will
Adultery
Lust
Looked
Knows
Times
Committed
Forgives
Many
You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
Jimmy Carter
You
You Can Do It
Better
Sometimes
Think
Than
Even
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Jimmy Carter
Soul
Rights
Sense
Human Rights
Our
Policy
Because
Foreign
Foreign Policy
Very
Human
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
Jimmy Carter
Changing
Adjust
Must
Unchanging
Principles
Still
Times
Hold
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter
Contagious
Becomes
Disease
Aggression
When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
Jimmy Carter
War
Peace
Challenge
White
White House
Cold
Cold War
Earth
Destroy
Weapons
Entire
Both
Could
Had
Maintain
House
Soviet
Soviet Union
Confronted
Union
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
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.
Jimmy Carter
War
Good
Together
Peace
Sometimes
Matter
Will
Evil
Live
Other
Never
Learn
Always
How
May
Children
Each
Necessary
Necessary Evil
Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.
Jimmy Carter
Win
Sides
Unless
Both
Both Sides
Permanent
Agreement
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
Gay
People
Word
Think
Married
Fine
Civil
About
Never
He
Said
Condemned
His
Very
Personally
Ceremonies
Should
Teachings
Multiple
Things
Jesus
Homosexuality
When you single out any particular group of people for secondary citizenship status, that's a violation of basic human rights.
Jimmy Carter
You
Rights
People
Single
Group
Human Rights
Secondary
Out
Status
Citizenship
Particular
Any
Human
Basic
Basic Human Rights
Violation
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.
Jimmy Carter
People
Own
Our
Define
Paramount
Insignificant
Tendency
Condemn
Sins
Being
Different
Us
Who
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.
Jimmy Carter
God
People
Blessed
Own
Rich
Being Rich
Believe
President
Ought
Ability
Self
Delusion
Idea
Powerful
Self-Delusion
Because
Always
Opponent
Were
Being
Your
Who
Element
Deserve
Among
Compatible
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
Jimmy Carter
Love
Good
Prevail
Nature
Peace
Honor
Will
Our
Earth
Gifts
Outdoors
Beauties
Joys
Forever
Children
Realize
Teach
Here
I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy Carter
Prevail
Hate
Christ
Complacency
Our
Our Lives
See
Directly
Contrary
Teaching
Lives
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.
Jimmy Carter
Faith
Good
You
Respect
Abortion
Secular
Gun
Gun Control
Control
Evolve
Bad
Religious
Religious Faith
Followers
More
Wrong
Crusade
Attract
Affairs
Fervent
Moderate
Any
Where
Either
Against
Us
Your
Beliefs
Right
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
Good
Prevail
Made
Doors
Difficult
Those
Locked
Concentration
Intense
Behind
Common
Common Good
Interest
Against
Decisions
Special
Who
Special Interest
We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third largest democracy is Indonesia, which is Islamic. Democracy and freedom are not dependent on Christian beliefs.
Jimmy Carter
Freedom
Democracy
Christian
Christianity
Earth
India
Primarily
Indonesia
Islamic
Because
Equate
Hindu
Dependent
Which
Beliefs
Largest
Third
Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
Jimmy Carter
You
Technology
Phones
People
World
Internet
Cell Phones
Rich
Nice
Defined
About
Computers
Like
Globalization
Talking
Affect
Very
Cell
Rich People
Us
Nice Thing
Thing
Two-Thirds
Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
Jimmy Carter
Love
Music
Art
Nature
Political
Language
Boundaries
Like
Common
Transcend
Common Language
Social
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
Jimmy Carter
Best
Freedom
Other
Our
Way
System
Worthy
Best Way
Democratic
Emulation
Demonstrate
Lands
Enhance
Here
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.
Jimmy Carter
Wife
Swimming
Troubles
Drown
Go
Get
Often
Wanted
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter
Time
You
Say
Frankly
Over
Discrimination
Quite
Quite Frankly
Racial
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