Quote #10

Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show; stated in articles written for NY Times; printed in USA Today)

More from Jimmy Carter

  1. We live in a time of transition, an uneasy era which is likely to endure for the rest of this century. During the period we may be tempted …
  2. This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs. (on the Diane Re…
  3. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past fi…
  4. We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show.)
  5. Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
  6. Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American…
  7. But I want to stress again that human rights are not peripheral to the foreign policy of the United States. Our pursuit of human rights is …
  8. Anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment in which they live. This is not based on measuring succes…

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