Quotes
I’m not complaining … It’s natural for a president to call on someone who’s been there more recently,
That’s what I prefer to think,
Yet, with a twinkle in his eye, he added If I get home at midnight on Saturday, I still teach on Sunday morning,
This is something on which I’m going to continue to work with a very high degree of my priority for the rest of my life,
It’s where our family has always lived. It’s where we own our land, our home – the only home we’ve ever owned,
I do not promise a quick way out of our nation's problems"
He admitted as much in his infamous "crisis of confidence" speech of July 15, 1979, in which he ill-advisedly said His presence itself was a message to the Nepalese population and voters about the integrity of the election,
If we saw the same conditions in another country that we were seeing in the U.S. — the lack of trust in election institutions, polarization and growing concern of political violence — it is exactly the kind of country we would prioritize to see if we could play a constructive role,
In my fumbling Spanish, I stood up on a table, and I denounced the election as fraudulent,
Carter recalled in a 2015 video marking the center’s 100th election observer mission There was deadlock in the country. Political parties were not sitting together, and there was no way out on how the process will move on,
said Bhojraj Pokharel, Nepal’s chief election commissioner in 2008, who later worked with Carter in Congo and Myanmar You can help strong systems be in place, but they need to be watched continually. You can never rest on your record on democracy and elections. You always have to be vigilant and keep an eye on the process,
Carter didn’t change. Zimbabwe did. Mugabe swayed from the democratic ideals that Carter held so dear,
What separates us is the very thing that unites us. We are two distinct versions of Western civilization.”
While in Mexico City, Carter spoke in Spanish to a joint session of Congress, famously quoting storied Mexican poet Octavio Paz Our adversaries say there is authoritarianism but how [can there be] if it is the people who decide?"
Sheinbaum asked a cheering crowd in Tlaxcala Our perceptions of each other have sometimes been distorted,
But he also spoke hopefully ... he said Our principal goal is to help shape a world which is more responsive to the desire of people everywhere for economic well-being, social justice, political self-determination and basic human rights,
he said in a 1978 speech at the U.S. Naval Academy The erosion of our confidence in the future is threatening to destroy the social and the political fabric of America,
With some hesitation, I said that I had long taught lessons from the Hebrew Scriptures and that a common historical pattern was that Israel was punished whenever the leaders turned away from devout worship of God,
Carter recounted in his book We cannot be peacemakers if American government leaders are seen as knee-jerk supporters of every action or policy of whatever Israeli government happens to be in power at the moment. That is the essential fact that must be faced,
It was surreal. There was President Carter and Mrs Carter took notes. I did the translation of Noriega’s Spanish to English for the president,
