Jimmy Carter

“My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exceptio...”

“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 sh...”

“My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.”

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

“If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.”

“A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.”

“I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get ti...”

“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.”

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

“I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.”

“When I speak at my local church, which I try to do 35 to 40 times a year, I try in every lesson to take the Old Testament text or New Testament text and apply them to what is happening to me...”

“Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and...”

“I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.”

“To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.”

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

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.”

“I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.”

“I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm tak...”

“Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.”

“There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capab...”