I think I was identified as a failed president because I wasn’t re-elected.
You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I’ve never detected any conflict between God’s will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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.
Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.
A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory.
Today, in directly harnessing the power of the Sun, we’re taking the energy that God gave us, the most renewable energy that we will ever see, and using it to replace our dwindling supplies of fossil fuels.
The founding of our Nation was more than a political event; it was an act of faith, a promise to Americans and to the entire world. The Declaration of Independence declared that people can govern themselves, that they can live in freedom with equal rights, that they can respect the rights of others.
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
No poor, rural, weak, or black person should ever again have to bear the additional burden of being deprived of the opportunity for an education, a job, or simple justice.
We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’ Paul McCartney I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming.
The abuse of women and girls is the most pervasive and unaddressed human right violation on earth.
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.
From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.
We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.
I am no big shot. I am not anybody’s boss. I want to be everybody’s servant.