Jimmy Carter Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

16 Famous Quotes by Jimmy Carter
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“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.”
Adultery 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.”
Globalization Quotes
“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”
Achievement Quotes
“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.”
Balance Quotes
“Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.”
Politics / government Quotes
“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. Spech in March 1976.”
Christianity Quotes
“This nation has dehumanized its adversaries calling them Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.”
Advertising 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.”
Computer / technology / science Quotes
“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.”
Failure Quotes
“We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted to abandon some of the time-honored principles and commitments which have been proven during the difficult times of past generations. We must never yield to this temptation. Our American values are not luxuries, but necessities - not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. in his farewell address.”
Finance and economics Quotes
“This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. on the Diane Rehm Show.”
Greed Quotes
“We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians spoken on the Diane Rehm Show.”
Injury Quotes
“Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show twice.. stated in articles written for NY Times.. printed in USA Today).”
Patriotism Quotes
“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.”
Sports Quotes
“There was promulgation of false propaganda by the administration about the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. There was promulgation of false propaganda about Iraq as a base for Al Qaeda.”
Truth Quotes
“Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.”
Value Quotes