Jimmy Carter Quotes & Sayings

“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.”

“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.”

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

“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

“We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.”

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

“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.'”

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

“I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.”

“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”