In retrospect, I can see that President Brezhnev was quite proud of the limited agreement that he had concluded in Vladivostok; and to have a new American president come in and say, “That is not good enough – let’s do much more, and do it quite rapidly,” took him by surprise.
You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.
One of the surprising things that Brezhnev said when we were in our talks, was – when I proposed that we make these changes in nuclear weaponry, he said, “God will never forgive us if we don’t succeed.” And, you know, coming from the leader of an atheistic communist country, this surprised everyone.
There’s always enough to fill up the headlines in a newspaper, the evening news broadcasts. I’m always grateful when I get the weekly news magazines on Monday morning and don’t see my picture on the front.
I think all of us could insist on preserving the truth and preserving the peace. We could insist that political candidates tell the truth about controversial issues. And secondly, we should be sure to encourage our political leaders, after they’re elected, to preserve the peace.
In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.
I’m a peanut farmer at heart, still grow peanuts on my farm in Georgia.
Christians are supposed to be evangelicals. And I am. I am evangelical.
I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.
I let God be the judge and I believe that we worship a just and fair God who won’t punish innocent people unnecessarily.
I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.
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.
Each one of us is an individual, just like talk show hosts are different from one another, and newspaper columnists are different from each other. So, former presidents are different from each other, too. Some have gone into relative seclusion. Some have decided to teach.
In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There’s not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.
People in the United States, including me, are naturally inclined to support Israel. I’m an evangelical Christian who teaches the Bible every Sunday at my church. I teach half the Old Testament and half the New Testament. We Americans identify the Hebrews, the Israelites, with ourselves.
The heart and mind of every Muslim is affected by whether or not the Israel-Palestine issue is dealt with fairly.
My life since the White House has been much more all-encompassing, much more enjoyable. The main thing that I’ve acquired has been access to the poorest and most destitute, forgotten, and suffering people on Earth. It’s not possible for a President to actually know them.
I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.
I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.
When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they’re not realized. They don’t instantly get richer and the schools don’t instantly get better and the garbage isn’t instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.