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Jimmy Carter

Born: October 1, 1924

Nationality: American

Occupation: President

Biography: James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as Governor of Georgia.

Jimmy Carter

“Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.”

- Jimmy Carter

Source/Notes: Quoted in US-Pakistan Relationship: Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan - Page 73 - by A. Z. Hilali - Political Science - 2005 - Presidency (1977-1981)
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“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

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“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

Source/Notes: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1982 edition)
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“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

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Jimmy Carter

“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

Source/Notes: A Government As Good As Its People (1996 edition), University of Arkansas Press - ISBN: 9781557283986
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“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

- Jimmy Carter

Source/Notes: Presidency (1977-1981)
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“I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.”

- Jimmy Carter

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“I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.”

- Jimmy Carter

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“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

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“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”

- Jimmy Carter

Source/Notes: Why Not the Best?: The First Fifty Years (1975 edition), University of Arkansas Press - ISBN: 9781557284181
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Jimmy Carter

“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

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“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

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“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.”

- Jimmy Carter

Source/Notes: Interview in Playboy magazine (1976), while a candidate for President. - Pre-Presidency
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