Quote #8
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 five years.
More from Jimmy Carter
- Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
- 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 …
- 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 …
- Iraq is an unjust war. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show; stated in articles written for NY Times; printed in USA Today)
- 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…
- 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…
- Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.
- We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians. (spoken on the Diane Rehm Show.)