More - Jimmy Carter Quotes

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

Jimmy Carter

 American President Quotes

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

 American President Quotes Globalization

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

Jimmy Carter

 American President Quotes

The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States.

Jimmy Carter

 Iraq

The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

Jimmy Carter

 Justice

I think the current situation in Iraq and the continued violence in Iraq and the substantial abandonment of Afghanistan -- where we only control the capital in Kabul and the rest of the country is being taken over by warlords and the Taliban is coming back -- I think those kinds of things are inevitably going to be placed on the agenda for almost all the candidates,

Jimmy Carter

 Afghanistan

An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis [that] calls for firmness and restraint.

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

 American President Quotes Conflict

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Jimmy Carter

 American President Quotes Art

I am deeply grateful that President Bush has taken this initiative and this bold step, because I know that some key people in his administration didn't even want to increase development assistance at all,

Jimmy Carter