Jimmy Carter Memorable Quotations

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.

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.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

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

Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing with my daddy.

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

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

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