Quote #7
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
More from Jimmy Carter
- 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 …
- 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…
- We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth-one for every five-hundred Americans; three times as many as are in England, four ti…
- 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 …
- Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
- Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show; stated in articles written for NY Times; printed in USA Today)
- 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.
- 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…