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Vote: | 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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Vote: | Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. |
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Vote: | America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. |
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Vote: | An act of terrorism totally outside the bounds of international law and diplomatic tradition. a crisis that calls for firmness and restraint. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom. |
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Vote: | Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood. |
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Vote: | I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming. |
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Vote: | I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president. |
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Vote: | I now understand more clearly than I ever had before why you won in November 1980 and I lost. |
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Vote: | I personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. |
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Vote: | I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A. I wouldn't say it's the cause of terrorism, but it has given impetus and excuses to potential terrorists to lash out at our country and justify their despicable acts. |
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Vote: | I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. |
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Vote: | If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you. |
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Vote: | In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' |
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Vote: | It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. |
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Vote: | Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. |
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Vote: | Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. |
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Vote: | The entire Islamic world condemned Iran. Nowadays, because of the unwarranted invasion of Iraq by Bush and Blair, which was a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements, and the lack of any effort to resolve the Palestinian issue, there is massive Islamic condemnation of the United States. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat. |
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Vote: | To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes. |
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Vote: | Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent. |
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Vote: | We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams. |
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Vote: | We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles. |
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Vote: | We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. |
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Vote: | We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. |
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Vote: | We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children. |
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Vote: | We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business. |
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Vote: | What has happened at Guantanamo Bay... does not represent the will of the American people. I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong. I think it does give terrorists an unwarranted excuse to use the despicable means to hurt innocent people. |
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Vote: | Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread. |
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Vote: | When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions. |
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Vote: | Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. |
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Vote: | You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. |
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Vote: | You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other. |
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Vote: | You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are. |
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (born October 1, 1924), American politician, was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981), and 83rd (1971–1975) Governor of Georgia.
Carter's presidency was marked by a period of American supremacy being challenged abroad and economic recession striking at home. Sixty-six hostages were taken inside the American embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 by Iranian revolutionaries. Later that year, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Inflation and interest rates reached their highest levels since World War II as the administration froze domestic oil prices in response to rising prices from OPEC. These problems, many of them outside of Carter's control, and the perception that he failed to deal with them decisively contributed to his re-election defeat. Among his administration's accomplishments were the Panama Canal treaties, the Camp David Accords, and the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union. He failed to reform the tax system (due to strained relations with U.S. Congress) and reduce the government bureaucracy as promised during the 1976 campaign, or pass the Martin Luther King holiday despite Democrats controlling both Houses of Congress and the White House. His administration oversaw the founding of the Departments of Energy and Education and enacted strong legislation on environmental protection.
In the decades since he left office, Carter gained more respect for his role as an international mediator and peacemaker, and has used his position as a former president to further many charitable causes. In 1982, he founded the Carter Center as a forum for issues related to democracy and human rights. He has also travelled extensively to monitor elections, conduct peace negotiations, and establish relief efforts. In 2002, Carter won the Nobel Peace Prize for his "efforts to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development."
Early years Born the oldest of four children to James Earl Carter and Bessie Lillian Gordy in the southwest Georgia town of Plains, he was the first president born in a hospital. Young Carter was a gifted student from an early age who always had a fondness for reading. He was greatly influenced by one of his high school teachers Julia Coleman. Ms. Coleman was handicapped by polio. She had encouraged young Jimmy to read War and Peace; he was disappointed to find that there were no cowboys or Indians in the book. Carter mentioned his beloved teacher in his inaugural address as an example of someone who beat overwhelming odds.
His younger brother, Billy Carter (1937-1988), caused some political problems for him during his administration. Carter's sister, Gloria Carter Spann (1926-1990), was low-key and was famous for collecting and riding Harley Davidson motorcycles. His youngest sister, Ruth Carter Stapleton (1929-1983), became a well known Christian evangelist. He grew up in nearby Archery.
He attended Georgia Southwestern College and the Georgia Institute of Technology, and received a B.S. degree from the United States Naval Academy in 1946, the same year he married Rosalynn Smith. Carter was a very gifted student and finished 59th out of his Academy class of 820. Vietnam POW and war hero Jeremiah Denton was one of Carter's classmates. They are considered members of the class of 1947, as their class would have graduated in 1947, except that the program had been temporarily compressed.
Carter served on submarines in the Atlantic and Pacific fleets. He was later selected by Admiral Hyman Rickover for the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine program, where he became a qualified nuclear engineer. Rickover was a crusty, demanding officer and Carter was greatly influenced by him. He later said that next to his parents that Admiral Rickover had the greatest influence on him. There was a story he often told of being interviewed by the Admiral. He was asked about his rank in his class at the Naval Academy. Carter said "Sir, I graduated 59th out of a class of 820". Rickover only asked "Did you always do your best?" Carter was forced to admit he had not and the Admiral asked why. Carter later used this as the theme of his presidential campaign and as the title of his first book "Why Not The Best?" He even mentioned Admiral Rickover in his inaugural address. Carter loved the Navy and planned to make it his career. His ultimate goal was to be Chief of Naval Operations. Upon the death of his father in 1953, however, he resigned from the Navy and established a peanut farming business in Plains where he was involved in a farming accident which left him with a permanently bent finger. From a young age, Carter showed a deep commitment to Christianity, serving as a Sunday School teacher throughout his political career. Even as President, Carter prayed several times a day and professed that Jesus Christ was the driving force in his life. Carter had been greatly influenced by a sermon he had heard as a young man called "If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?"
After World War II, he and Rosalynn started a family. She bore him three sons (John William, born in 1947; James Earl III, born in 1950; and Donnel Jeffrey, born in 1952), and gave birth to his daughter(Amy Lynn, late in life , in 1967).
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