A biography for Jimmy Carterhasn’t been written yet.
“You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.”
“I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.”
“There's no way now for you to get a Democratic or Republican nomination without being able to raise $200 or $300 million or more. I would not be inclined to do that, and I would not be capable of doing it.”
“I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.”
“We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.”
“I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.”
“I'm an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.”
“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”
“The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.”
“Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.”
“I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn't re-elected.”
“Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.”
“My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.”
“I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.”
“The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.”
“There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.”
“Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.”
“I'm taking special treatments for the cancer in my brain and in my liver. Part of the liver was removed, and they did the treatment on four places in my brain with radiation. And now I'm taking a long-term medicine that stimulates my own immune system to fight against cancer.”
“America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.”
“Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.”