Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr.is an American politician and author who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. In 2002, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work with the Carter Center...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth1 October 1924
CountryUnited States of America
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adverse concerned economic facilities heritage historic huge impact less london loss proud service training
I am concerned about the adverse economic impact on the New London area, the abandonment of a huge installation of facilities and, less quantitatively, a loss of some of the proud submariners' heritage of our historic association with service and training at New London.
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The election process demonstrated significant advances in Ethiopia's democratization process, including most importantly the introduction of a more competitive electoral process,
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Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.
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Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
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Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I'm glad that that's being changed.
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The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.
future mean sacrifice
Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world - water, food, minerals, farmlands, forests, overpopulation, pollution - if we tackle them with courage and foresight.
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My favourite president, and the one I admired most, was Harry Truman.
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History teaches, perhaps, very few clear lessons. But surely one such lesson learned by the world at great cost is that aggression, unopposed, becomes a contagious disease.
atlanta state thrived
Under his leadership, Atlanta thrived and the state benefited as well,
democracy determination extreme interest total
There is extreme interest in voting, total determination for democracy and freedom,
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there is no guarantee in the U.S. that people of different economic levels have the same degree of counting in the balance.
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You can't 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.
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When I left the White House I was a fairly young man and I realized I maybe have 25 more years of active life, ... so we capitalized on the influence that I had as a former president of the greatest nation in the world and decided to fill vacuums.