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War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.
Jimmy Carter
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To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.
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I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
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 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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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
Jimmy Carter
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
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Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
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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.
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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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If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
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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
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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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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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