Carter Quotes

• If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

  David Horowitz

  Birthday, Kings, Holiday

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• It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

  Ted Cruz

  Giving, Jimmy

  "Ted Cruz speech stokes 2016 speculation". www.politico.com.

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• Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

  Ann Coulter

  Blessed, Two, Eight

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• I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

  Megan Gallagher

  Willing

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• Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

  Thuy Trang

  Stars, Thinking, America

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• Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

  Thuy Trang

  Encouragement, Strong, Giving

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• I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

  Constance Baker Motley

  Leaving, Bob, Toes

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• I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, “Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.”

  Jimmy Carter

  Book, Home, Sunday

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do.

  June Carter Cash

  Inspirational, Names, Born

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• My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

  Deana Carter

  Father

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• Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Want, Sticks, Speak

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

  Jimmy Carter

  Hero, Rights, Giving

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• During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.'

  Al Franken

  Evil, President, Bob

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• I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told. I hadn't realized it (the original book) had survived, so was surprised and delighted when my dear friend and lawyer Tonja Carter discovered it. After much thought and hesitation, I shared it with a handful of people I trust and was pleased to hear that they considered it worthy of publication. I am humbled and amazed that this will now be published after all these years.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Years, People

  "Harper Lee to publish new book, sequel to 'Mockingbird'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2015.

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• During a recent press conference, former President Jimmy Carter said he could never run for president today because he doesn't have a lot of money. Well, that and the fact that he's the famously bad president Jimmy Carter.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, President, Today

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• Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).

  Joe Klein

  Senior, Men, Balance

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• In the years just before... during the Carter years, the Soviets regularly violated, if you will, both the spirit and theletter of arms control agreements, I think, that they had negotiated during the period of detente.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Thinking, Agreement, Years

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• I'm a political scientist and I study these things, and I know that economic problems, with the rising unemployment and inflation and low productivity and so forth, were a factor in that election, in that defeat of President Carter.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Political, President, Unemployment

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• More and more, Democrats are starting to worry they that they have a more um, colorful version of Jimmy Carter on their hands. Obama acts cool as a proverbial cucumber but that awful '70s show seems frightfully close to a rerun.

  Eric Alterman

  Hands, Worry, Reruns

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• Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

  Eric Alterman

  Differences, Warning, Splits

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• Barack Obama's discovering what a nightmare dealing with hostage problems is - a discovery previously made by Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, i don't see a lot of room for change in American policy.

  Bruce Riedel

  Change, Discovery, Rooms

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• The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.

  Jimmy Carter

  Government, Organization, World

  "Jimmy Carter on Eradicating the Guinea Worm 'This Horrible, Obnoxious Disease'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. December 17, 2010.

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• Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union.

  Newt Gingrich

  Unions, Might, Soviet Union

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• Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.

  Eric Alterman

  Kenya, Born, Barack

  "Obama's Awful '70's Show Echoes Carter" by Eric Alterman, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 25, 2011.

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• Since leaving office in 1977, Dr. Kissinger has continued to play a highly influential role in U.S. politics, in the U.S. media, and in the Rockefeller world empire. It was Kissinger, along with David Rockefeller, who was decisive in the disastrous decision of President Carter to admit the recently toppled Shah of Iran, old friend and ally of the Rockefellers into the United States, a decision that led directly to the Iranian hostage crisis and to Carter's downfall.

  Murray Rothbard

  Play, Hostage Crisis, Media

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