Jimmy Carter Quotes

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times an

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.

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

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.

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.

I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts.

I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.'

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

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

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

I'll never tell a lie. I'll never make a misleading statement. I'll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I'll never avoid a controversial issue.

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

There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

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