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Those who start war often know that because of their high political position their own lives will not be in danger. on the Diane Rehm Show.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 99
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.
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I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.
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As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students.... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith.
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When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.
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Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.
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We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
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My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
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Great American power and responsibility are not unprecedented, and have been used with restraint and great benefit in the past. We have not assumed that super strength guarantees super wisdom, and we have consistently reached out to the international community to ensure that our own power and influence are tempered by the best common judgment.
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The reduction of nuclear arsenals and the removal of the threat of worldwide nuclear destruction is a measure, in my judgment, ofthe power and strength of a great nation.
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We have the deepest respect and reverence for Islam and all who share the faith of Islam.
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Jesus is the Son of God, we have a chance for God's blessings, God's salvation through our faith in Jesus Christ and all of us are sinners who fall short of the glory of God, and the wages of sin is death but through our faith that Jesus Christ, we can be saved.
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