Top 300 Jimmy Carter Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.”

— Jimmy Carter

202. “As we ask God for some blessing, we have an obligation to participate ourselves in the fulfillment of those dreams, aspirations, hopes, and ideas.”

— Jimmy Carter

203. “My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I’ve taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, ‘The Hornet’s Nest,’ I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.”

— Jimmy Carter

204. “He explains the true character of the God of love and reassures us that ultimate power on earth will be good, not evil. It is through God and his Son that I strive to understand the world in which we live.”

— Jimmy Carter

205. “God is not my personal valet. God does not build a protective fence around my life, keep me from trouble, fulfill my personal desires, or guarantee my success. However, through prayer God offers me comfort, reassurance, satisfaction, courage, hope, and peace.”

— Jimmy Carter

206. “Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear...”

— Jimmy Carter

207. “I don’t think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.”

— Jimmy Carter

208. “Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.”

— Jimmy Carter

209. “The life of every human being on earth can depend on the experience, judgment, and vigilance of the person in the Oval Office.”

— Jimmy Carter

210. “At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.”

— Jimmy Carter

211. “The importation and sale of marijuana is condemned and punished as a serious crime, but we accept as legitimate the manufacture and sale of an infinitely more addictive and deadly drug: the nicotine in cigarettes that cost the lives of 390,000 American citizens last year.”

— Jimmy Carter

212. “The Bible and studying the Bible has been an important part of my life.”

— Jimmy Carter

213. “Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That’s about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today’s even greater scourge?”

— Jimmy Carter

214. “You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.”

— Jimmy Carter

215. “Trust is very much a part of our democracy.”

— Jimmy Carter

216. “The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.”

— Jimmy Carter

217. “You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.”

— Jimmy Carter

218. “I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.”

— Jimmy Carter

219. “One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was – when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, “God will never forgive us if we don’t succeed.” And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.”

— Jimmy Carter

220. “This is the first national administration we’ve ever seen where the housewife couldn’t afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn’t afford to grow them.”

— Jimmy Carter

221. “I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years. I have two great-grandsons that are rapidly learning about the people here and the anguish and suffering and deprivation of human rights that you have experienced ever since 1948.”

— Jimmy Carter

222. “I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.”

— Jimmy Carter

223. “The United States is squandering international prestige and goodwill and intensifying global anti-American terrorism by unofficially condoning or abetting the Israeli confiscation and colonization of Palestinian territories.”

— Jimmy Carter

224. “The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.”

— Jimmy Carter

225. “If I were president, I’d be very glad to see the Palestinians have a nation recognized by the United Nations. There’s no downside to it.”

— Jimmy Carter

226. “To work for better understanding among people, one does not have to be a former president sitting at a fancy conference room table. Peace can be made in the neighborhoods, the living rooms, the playing fields, and the classrooms of our country.”

— Jimmy Carter

227. “And so I say to you and to others around the world, whether they wish us well or ill – do not underestimate us Americans. We lack neither strength nor wisdom.”

— Jimmy Carter

228. “I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.”

— Jimmy Carter

229. “This afternoon, I’ve arranged for this ceremony to be illuminated by solar power.”

— Jimmy Carter

230. “The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.”

— Jimmy Carter

231. “Standing alone among great democratic nations in imposing the death penalty is another moral decision that Americansare being forced to confront.”

— Jimmy Carter

232. “Energy will be the immediate test of our ability to unite this Nation, and it can also be the standard around which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we can seize control again of our common destiny.”

— Jimmy Carter

233. “One of the most serious problems that our country has inherited an unwillingness to talk to anyone who disagrees with us or who won’t accept, before a discussion, all the premises that we demand.”

— Jimmy Carter

234. “For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.”

— Jimmy Carter

235. “I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.”

— Jimmy Carter

236. “The love of liberty is a common blood that flows in our American veins.”

— Jimmy Carter

237. “My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.”

— Jimmy Carter

238. “Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.”

— Jimmy Carter

239. “When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it’s OK for them to do it.”

— Jimmy Carter

240. “I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God’s help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.”

— Jimmy Carter

241. “I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our countryenergy and malaise.”

— Jimmy Carter

242. “People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I’m an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.”

— Jimmy Carter

243. “I can’t think of a man more worthy of the presidency then my good friend Sam Nunn.”

— Jimmy Carter

244. “This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours.”

— Jimmy Carter

245. “Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.”

— Jimmy Carter

246. “As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.”

— Jimmy Carter

247. “There is no other even moderately equal abuse than the murder of little baby girls – nothing else compares with that, in horror.”

— Jimmy Carter

248. “Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.”

— Jimmy Carter

249. “I’m going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I’m able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.”

— Jimmy Carter

250. “I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.”

— Jimmy Carter