I'd like to be remembered as someone who was a champion of peace and human rights.

- Jimmy Carter

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

- Jimmy Carter

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as lon…

- Jimmy Carter

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. I…

- Jimmy Carter

What are the things that you can't see that are important? I would say justice, truth, humility, service, compassion, love...They're the guiding ligh…

- Jimmy Carter

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

- Jimmy Carter

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

- Jimmy Carter

The test of a government is not how popular it is with the powerful and privileged few but how honestly and fairly it deals with the many who must de…

- Jimmy Carter

All I want is the same thing you want. To have a nation with a government that is as good and honest and decent and competent and compassionate and a…

- Jimmy Carter