We have no desire to be the world's policeman. But America does want to be the world's peacemaker.

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

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

I have been very interested and intrigued and congratulatory toward President Bush and his paintings.

Our values are not luxuries, but necessities. They are not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

Communicating our questions, hopes, and fears in prayer makes them-even to ourselves-more open and clear.

Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.

Every act of energy conservation... is more than just common sense: I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

I'm feeling better than anybody expected me to so I'm still maintaining a pretty normal schedule, I'd say.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

I enjoy walking by myself on the same paths where, as a little boy, I delighted in following my father around.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

I'm an expert cook when it comes to preparing the quail, ducks, geese and wild turkeys that I hunt on the farm.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

I believe that we are saved by the grace of God because he loves us provided that we have faith in Jesus Christ.

War and good health are incompatible. There's no way we can go [eradicate diseases] into an area that is at war.

It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.

Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.

The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

I believe in the separation of church and state and would not use my authority to violate this principle in any way.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's 'yes.' Sometimes the answer is 'no.' Sometimes it's 'you gotta be kidding.

God always answers prayer, sometimes with a yes, sometimes with a no and sometimes with a 'You've got to be kidding!'

I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace.

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.

Whether the borders that divide us are picket fences or national boundaries, we are all neighbors in a global community.

I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won't punish innocent people unnecessarily.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

The situation in Gaza is intolerable. Not one destroyed house has been rebuilt Ppl cannot live w the dignity they deserve

The drug culture has shaped at least one major change since the Sixties; It became the basis for overloading our prisons.

I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

I personally have always been in favor of people who are gay being permitted to marry legally - and I still feel that way.

I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.

We have been involved in more wars, on a bilateral basis, since the United Nations was formed than any other country by far.

(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

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