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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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Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.
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At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.
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Always I'm working on some of book. That's the way I make a living.
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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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That difference between the rich and poor is growing every month.
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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
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The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
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We are a purely idealistic Nation but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
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(Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.
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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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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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We simply must balance our demand for energy with our rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can control our future instead of letting the future control us.
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We cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
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I have a very real political awareness that at least on a transient basis the more drastic action taken by the president, the more popular it is.
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
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The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.
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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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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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There's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
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