A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.


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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a go...
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I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of...
JIMMY CARTER
I'm a Southerner.
JIMMY CARTER
I don't think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can c...
JIMMY CARTER
I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was ...
JIMMY CARTER
I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.
JIMMY CARTER
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

JIMMY CARTER
This Voyager spacecraft was constructed by the United States of America. We are a community of 240 m...
JIMMY CARTER
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its v...
JIMMY CARTER
Put on a sweater.
JIMMY CARTER
The bottom line is this: Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli governm...
JIMMY CARTER
Huns, wops, gooks, Japs.. words to dehumanize and demonize.
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
CONSIDERING THE VOID When I behold the charm of evening skies, their lulling endurance; the pattern...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the Palestinians on the Diane Rehm Sh...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
There was false propaganda by the administration that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will no...
PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER
You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. . . . It'...
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER
I'm Jimmy Carter, and I'm going to be your next president.
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER
We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.
JAMES EARL "JIMMY" CARTER
Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.
JIMMY DEAN
No matter what Sarah Palin and these geniuses she surrounds herself with try to tell you, climate ch...
JIMMY KIMMEL
I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to...
JIMMY PAGE
I'm a creative consultant, whatever that means.
JIMMY KIMMEL
Poverty was the greatest motivating factor in my life.
JIMMY DEAN
Be kind to people on the way up - you'll meet them again on your way down.
JIMMY DURANTE
I do have a treadmill desk in my office, and for a while, I would walk on it while checking email an...
JIMMY KIMMEL
I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
JIMMY WALKER
There are no right and wrong ways to work in this business, but there are some basic common-sense pr...
JIMMY SMITS
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colle...
JIMMY BRESLIN
Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pat...
JIMMY IOVINE
Bruce Springsteen gave people faith in rock & roll and in themselves again.
JIMMY IOVINE
My life changed because Bruce Springsteen got on a mic in front of me.
JIMMY IOVINE
Donald Trump handles these nitwit reporters with a new and most disgraceful form of bribery.
JIMMY BRESLIN
I was brought up in the Boys' Brigade and grew up not swearing. It's so lovely to behave dec...
JIMMY HILL
The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.
JIMMY RUSHING
I was a hard-workin' little boy. Oh, I worked. Pullin' cotton, shockin' grain, cuttin...
JIMMY DEAN
My favorite song? 'Amazing Grace.' Anybody singing it. But the best it'll ever be done i...
JIMMY DEAN
You know you're getting old when you go to more funerals than you do weddings.
JIMMY DEAN
I've seen so many people in this business that made a fortune. They get old and broke and can...
JIMMY DEAN
I used to help my granddaddy make sausage. He would mix it up in a cleaned-out washtub with his hand...
JIMMY DEAN
I made more money yesterday than I ever thought I'd make in an entire lifetime. But it's lik...
JIMMY DEAN
A lot of things I am, and a lot of things I am not. But I think I'm about as good an American as...
JIMMY DEAN