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This is the first national administration we've ever seen where the housewife couldn't afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn't afford to grow them.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.
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I am pro-Israeli, not because of political expediency, but because I believe Israel is the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy.
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The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
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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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Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.
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From the beginning, the United States has enjoyed close and valued ties with the Muslim world.
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Habitat gives us an opportunity which is very difficult to find: to reach out and work side by side with those who never have had a decent home-but work with them on a completely equal basis. It's not a big-shot, little-shot relationship. It's a sense of equality.
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