2024 (Reuters) – Former US President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100. Here are some of his quotes:
* “I can’t deny that I’m a better ex-president than a president.”
– 2005 interview with journalists
* “The threat is almost invisible in the ordinary way. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes the heart and the soul and the spirit of our national will. We can see this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.
“The erosion of our confidence in the future threatens to destroy the social and political fabric of America.
– a 1979 televised address on what was wrong in America; became known as Carter’s (NYSE: ) “speech of malaise”
* “America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.”
– Carter’s January 14, 1981, presidential farewell address
* “I have seen many women with lust. I have committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows that I will do this and forgive me.”
– a 1976 interview with Playboy magazine
* “A simple and proper function of the government is only to make it easy to do good and difficult to do bad.”
– Carter’s speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination in 1976
* “War can sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
– Carter’s 2002 Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech
* “I think that under Trump the government is worse than before. This is the first time I can remember when the truth is ignored, allies are deliberately aggravated, China, Europe, Mexico and Canada are hurt economically and they have to hurt us in response, Americans see the future worse than the present, and immigrants are treated cruelly.”
– Carter in a 2018 interview with Salon
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2024-12-29 22:41:00
