Jimmy Carter

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Jimmy Carter

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Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president - Democratic president I ever met? Bill Clinton. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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

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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. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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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. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Jimmy Carter

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