Carter Quotes

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

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

Our problems started in Dallas, when the fire-breathing sheep destroyed the King Tut exhibit.

Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.

Shawn Carter is nice, but Sean Price is the best.

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.

Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable.

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan.

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire.

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects.

Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.

The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him.

Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans.

A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history.

When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter!

I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were.

I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor.

Love is rarely flawless,” Carter pointed out. “Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect.

Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him.

I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing.

History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents: Carter, Ford and Nixon - See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil.

The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.

When I worked in the White House for President Carter, we tried to do comprehensive tax reform and we made some progress, and other presidents have as well.

If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.

I had a .200 lifetime batting average in the major leagues, which tied me with another sports great averaging 200 or better for a ten-year period: Don Carter, one of our top bowlers.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter.

Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it." - Landon Carter

In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people.

Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.

I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.

In Plains, I saw Jimmy Carter as he really is - a nice, decent man... in terms of compassionate contribution to society, he certainly has proven to be our best past president.

One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

The fact was, Ford kept stumbling around. I didn't want him in the White House. I wanted Carter in, and I had a forum of 20 million people watching.

Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride.

Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost.

The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

We can’t make a portal—” “We’ve got a flying boat,” Carter offered.

But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41

My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase.

What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation.

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

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.