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I'm 86, and too old to be President.

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Jimmy Carter
Age: 100
Born: 1924
Born: October 1
39Th U.S. President
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I am convinced that UFOs exist because I've seen one.
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I have never been disappointed when I asked in a humble and sincere way for God's help. I pray often. I think I pray more often since January 12th.
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Each of us must rededicate ourselves to serving the common good. We are a community. Our individual Fates are linked our futures intertwined and if we act in that knowledge and in that spirit together, as the Bible says: We can move mountains.
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On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.
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Our laws were not designed to accommodate three or four thousand refugees coming here per day. Our laws were designed for people to be screened in a foreign country, carefully catalogued, and brought here a few at a time. This just didn't happen.
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We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes - and we must.
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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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We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.
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Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself
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We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
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I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church - things like that - I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.
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We believe that the first time we're born, as children, it's human life given to us and when we accept Jesus as our Savior, it's a new life. That's what born again means.
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Quite often, the people who do leave their own nation and come to an unknown destination, like the United States, are inherently adventurous, so we've had that adventurous spirit that has embedded itself collectively in the American consciousness.
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It was the darndest thing I've ever seen. It was big, it was very bright, it changed colors and it was about the size of the moon.. We watched it for ten minutes, but none of us could figure out what it was. One thing's for sure, I'll never make fun of people who say they've seen unidentified objects in the sky.
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I have a great deal of confidence in myself and in my faith.
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I began to expand my personal service in the church, and to search more diligently for a closer relationship with God among my different business, professional and political interests.
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Whatever starts in California unfortunately has an inclination to spread.
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In the United States, you might say every county has got its own separate system. There's not even one kind of ballot that you use all over the United States. We require that in a foreign country.
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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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Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.
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