Quotes by Jimmy Carter

“Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder.”

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

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

“You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.”

“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease”

“One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting”

“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.”

“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 exception.”

“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 exception.”

“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.”