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America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.
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I've used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I've still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.
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On Saint Paul, he's probably one of the best theologians of all time, but I don't believe that some of his teachings are appropriate today.
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I officially designated every US ambassador on earth to be my personal human rights representative, and to have the embassy be a haven for people who suffered from abuse by their own government.
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As has been emphasized vigorously by foreign allies and by responsible leaders of former administrations and incumbent officeholders, there is no current danger to the United States from Baghdad.
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Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
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From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.
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When your troops go to war, the prime minister or the president change overnight from an administrator, dealing with taxation and welfare and health and deteriorating roads, into the commander-in-chief. And it's just become almost unpatriotic to describe Bush's fallacious and ill-advised and mistaken and sometimes misleading actions.
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We've got to stop crying and start sweating, stop talking and start walking, stop cursing and start praying. The strength we need will not come from the White House, but from every house in America.
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I remember the last three days that I was president, I never went to bed at all. I never went to bed until we had negotiated the final release of the hostages.
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Elvis was a symbol of the country's vitality, rebelliousness, and good humor.
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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 lights of a life.
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We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
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Governance should be designed as an equalizer. Democrats are more inclined towards working families and those who are struggling for a better life.
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Harry Truman was courageous enough to command that racial segregation be ended in the military. I was serving in a submarine in the U.S. Navy at the time he issued the order.
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We not only brought peace to many countries and people around the world, but we never dropped a bomb, we never launched a missile, and we never fired a bullet while I was in office. Yet we protected the interests of the American people in a peaceful, but strong way.
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You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
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To be true to ourselves, we must be true to others.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.
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