" /> Jimmy Carter Quotes - AllGreatQuotes - Page 2 of 4

Menu

Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Pride and Prejudice
The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Jimmy Carter Quotes

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

– Jimmy Carter

Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I’ve seen the profound impact he’s had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.

– Jimmy Carter

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

– Jimmy Carter

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

– Jimmy Carter

I’m a Southerner.

– Jimmy Carter

I think what’s going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn’t say it’s the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

– Jimmy Carter

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

– Jimmy Carter

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

– Jimmy Carter

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.

– Jimmy Carter

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.

– Jimmy Carter

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

– Jimmy Carter

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

– Jimmy Carter

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

– Jimmy Carter

There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.

– Jimmy Carter

If you’re totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

– Jimmy Carter

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

– Jimmy Carter

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

– Jimmy Carter

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‘Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.’

– Jimmy Carter

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel’s neighbours.

– Jimmy Carter

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

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‘We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.’

– Jimmy Carter

I’ve been writing poems since I was in the Navy – to Rosalynn. I found I could say things in poems that I never could in prose. Deeper, more personal things. I could write a poem about my mother that I could never tell my mother. Or feelings about being on a submarine that I would have been too embarrassed to share with fellow submariners.

– Jimmy Carter

I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he’s African American.

– Jimmy Carter

What has happened at Guantanamo Bay… does not represent the will of the American people. I’m embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people.

– Jimmy Carter

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

There’s no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there’s been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I’ve always believed in the separation of church and state.

– Jimmy Carter

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

– Jimmy Carter

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

You can’t 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

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy’s deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or ’79.

– Jimmy Carter

- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4