Jimmy Carter

“I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.”

“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.”

“My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,'...”

“I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.”

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

“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.”

“My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.”

“Testing oneself is best when done alone.”

“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.”

“It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.”

“I'm a Southerner.”

“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.”

“I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.”

“I think politicians really go with the tide.”

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