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PHOTO GALLERY: Notable quotes by Jimmy Carter

By The Associated Press - | Dec 29, 2024
FILE - President-elect Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd as he and his wife Rosalynn arrive at the Plains Baptist Church to attend services in Plains, Ga., Nov. 22, 1976. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, shakes hands with former President Jimmy Carter during their meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah, May 2, 2015. (Abbas Momani/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - President-elect Jimmy Carter poses for photographers after sitting for his official portrait at his home in Plains, Ga., Dec. 5, 1976. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - President-elect Jimmy Carter leans over to shake hands with some of the people riding the "Peanut Special" to Washington, Jan. 19, 1977. They will travel all night, arriving in Washington in time for Carter's inauguration as president on Jan. 20. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter uses a hand saw to even an edge as he works on a Habitat for Humanity home in Pikeville, Ky., June 16, 1997. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter pauses to kiss his wife, first lady Rosalynn Carter, as he boards a helicopter in Washington for a trip from the White House to Camp David, Md., May 10, 1979. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
FILE - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands to symbolize their agreement after signing the Middle East Peace Treaty at the White House in Washington, March 27, 1979. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter speaks on the eradication of the Guinea worm, Feb. 3, 2016, at the House of Lords in London. (Neil Hall/Pool Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Judge Robert H. Jordan administers the oath of office to Gov. Jimmy Carter at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Jan. 12, 1971. Next to the judge is former Gov. Lester Maddox, who will take over as lieutenant governor of Georgia. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter speaks about energy before a joint session of the Congress in Washington, April 21, 1977. House speaker Thomas "Tip" O'Neill is at right, and Vice President Walter Mondale is at left. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - President Barack Obama, from left, stands with former Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter at the dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Library on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, April 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter holds a copy of his book, "An Outdoor Journal: Adventures and Reflections," in May 1988 in Georgia. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway Jr., File)
FILE - Jimmy Carter gives his acceptance speech after accepting the Democratic nomination for president on the convention floor, July 15, 1976, at New York's Madison Square Garden. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Democratic presidential hopeful, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, right, holds a poster as he mingles with the crowd during a campaign visit in Williamsport, Pa., April 24, 1976. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter holds a copy of his book, "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid," at a book signing in Tempe, Ariz., Dec. 12, 2006. (AP Photo/Paul Connors, File)
FILE - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., center, and Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, right, embrace during a campaign rally where King declared, "I love and believe in him," in Atlanta, April 13, 1976. In a prepared speech read by Atlanta businessman Jesse Hill, left, King said Carter has been for equal justice when it wasn't an easy thing to be for in South Georgia. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter leans across the roof of his car to shake hands along the parade route through Bardstown, Ky., July 31, 1979. The president climbed on top of the car as the parade moved toward the high school gym, where a town meeting was held. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)
FILE - Copies of former President Jimmy Carter's book, "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety," sit in stacks at the Free Library in Philadelphia, July 10, 2015. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
This combination of book cover images shows some of the many books authored by President Jimmy Carter, top row from left, "An Hour Before Daylight: Memories of a Rural Boyhood," "Christmas in Plains: Memories," "The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture," "The Hornet's Nest: A Novel of the Revolutionary War," "Sharing Good Times," "Our Endangered Values: America's Moral Crisis," and "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," bottom row from left, "Beyond the White House," "A Remarkable Mother," "We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work," "White House Diary" (FSG), "A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power," "A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety," and "Faith: A Journey for All." (Simon & Schuster/FSG via AP)
FILE - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter smiles during a meeting with Sudanese officials at the national elections commission in Khartoum, Sudan, April 9, 2010. Carter was in the country to help monitor the elections. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, left, talks with his brother Billy at the Carter Peanut Warehouse in Plains, Ga., Sept. 18, 1976. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin as President Jimmy Carter watches at Camp David, Md., in September 1978, during talks aimed at laying the groundwork for a permanent Middle East peace. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter waves to a crowd gathered in Atlanta, Dec. 12, 1974, where he announced that he is a Democratic candidate for the presidency. Carter promised to "restore integrity, confidence and businesslike management to the federal government." (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Outgoing President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd at the inauguration of 40th President Ronald Reagan in Washington, Jan. 20, 1981. In the background, new Vice President George Bush, Reagan, Barbara Bush and first lady Nancy Reagan applaud. Next to Carter is outgoing Vice President Walter Mondale, and at far right, Reagan's son Ron applauds. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter works on a renovation of a tenement building in New York's Lower East Side neighborhood, Sept. 3, 1984. Carter, along with 50 other volunteers from Georgia, are working to build new homes for 19 families as part of the Habitat for Humanity project. (AP Photo/Mario Cabrera, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter, center, speaks to the media at the ruins of the American International School, which was destroyed during Israel's offensive in Gaza, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2009. Carter says he's trying to persuade Hamas leaders to accept the international community's conditions for ending its boycott of the Islamic militant group. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter, left center, smiles as Soviet President and Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, center, jokes around him outside the U.S. Embassy in Vienna, Austria, June 16, 1979, before they head for their second round of talks prior to the signing of the SALT II Treaty. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Jimmy Carter takes the oath of office as the 39th president of the United States at the Capitol in Washington, Jan. 20, 1977, as his wife Rosalynn holds the Bible. Chief Justice of the United States Warren Burger administers the oath while Sen. Howard Cannon of Nevada stands behind the Carters. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Georgia state Sen. Jimmy Carter hugs his wife, Rosalynn, at his Atlanta campaign headquarters, Sept. 15, 1966. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - From left, President Barack Obama, former President Jimmy Carter, first lady Michelle Obama and former President Bill Clinton wave from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke, Aug. 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn, right, watch election workers prepare ballots at a polling station in Managua, Nicaragua, Feb. 25, 1990. The Carters are in Nicaragua to monitor the elections. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - Jimmy Carter, the Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, points to his name in a voting machine as he casts his vote in Plains, Ga., Sept. 9, 1970. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin clasp hands at the White House in Washington after signing the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, March 26, 1979. Sadat and Begin were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978. Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize himself in 2002 "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts." (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter, right, and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, left, speak during their meeting in the Bosnian Serb stronghold city of Pale, Bosnia, Dec. 19, 1994. After his previous successful missions in North Korea and Haiti, Carter is in former Yugoslavia to try and break the deadlock in Bosnia's peace talks. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)
FILE - Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter poses for a picture in blue jeans outside his home in Plains, Ga., Feb. 8, 1976, as he takes a break from campaigning for the Democratic nomination for president. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway Jr., File)
FILE - President-elect Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd as he and his wife Rosalynn arrive at the Plains Baptist Church to attend services in Plains, Ga., Nov. 22, 1976. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Democratic presidential front-runner Jimmy Carter and his 8-year-old daughter Amy have a moment alone, though they are in the midst of about 30 visitors to Amy's drink stand outside the Carter home, June 12, 1976, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/Joe Holloway Jr., File)
FILE - In an image from a television screen, President Jimmy Carter delivers his energy speech in which he spoke of a "crisis of confidence," July 15, 1979, from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington. Some referred to the speech as his "malaise speech," although he never used that word during it. (AP Photo/Dale G. Young, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter shakes hands with Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide at the Presidential Palace in Port-au-Prince in Haiti, Feb. 23, 1995. (AP Photo/Andrew Innerarity, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter, right, and his wife Rosalynn, left, meet with Cuban leader Fidel Castro at the airport in Havana, Cuba, May 17, 2002. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)
FILE - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter meets representatives of ethnic African refugees in Kabkabiya town in Darfur, Oct. 3, 2007. The visit by "The Elders," which is headed by Carter and Nobel Peace laureate Desmond Tutu, is largely a symbolic move by a host of respected figures to push all sides to make peace in Darfur. (AP Photo/Alfred de Montesquiou, File)
FILE - U.S. President Jimmy Carter, center, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stand in front of the billowing national flags of the U.S., Egypt and Israel, as the national anthems are played before the signing of the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt at the White House in Washington, March 26, 1979. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter gets a pinch on the cheek as he greets Charlie Lanzaro, left, at a Queens, N.Y., delicatessen, Aug. 31, 1976. Carter had just arrived in New York on a campaign swing. (AP Photo/Peter Bregg, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter accepts the O'Connor Justice Prize from former U.S. Ambassador to Finland Barbara Barrett at The Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in Phoenix, Jan. 27, 2017. The prize recognizes people who have made extraordinary contributions to advancing the rule of law, justice and human rights. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter, right, and former first lady Rosalynn Carter raise a wall as they help build a Habitat for Humanity house in Violet, La., May 21, 2007. The pair were working on the 1,000th Habitat for Humanity house in the Gulf Coast region since hurricane Katrina and Rita. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter and first lady Rosalynn Carter walk down Pennsylvania Avenue after Carter was sworn in as the nation's 39th president, Jan. 20, 1977, in Washington. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - This is a 1932 family photo of Jimmy Carter at age 7 in Plains, Ga. (Carter Family Photo via AP, File)
FILE - Judge Robert H. Jordan administers the oath of office to Gov. Jimmy Carter at the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, Jan. 12, 1971. Next to the judge is former Gov. Lester Maddox, who will take over as lieutenant governor of Georgia. (AP Photo, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter teaches Sunday school at Maranatha Baptist Church in Plains, Ga., Sept. 22, 2009. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter stands behind his birthday cake during his 90th birthday celebration held at Georgia Southwestern University, Oct. 4, 2014, in Americus, Ga. (AP Photo/Branden Camp, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter works at a Habitat for Humanity building site in Memphis, Tenn., Nov. 2, 2015. Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, have volunteered a week of their time annually to Habitat for Humanity since 1984. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey, File)
FILE - Former President and Nobel Peace laureate Jimmy Carter speaks to the Associated Press in Copenhagen, Denmark, Dec. 13, 2002. (AP Photo/John McConnico, File)
FILE - Democratic presidential candidate and former South Bend, Ind., mayor, Pete Buttigieg, left, and his husband Chasten Buttigieg, second from the right, meet with former President Jimmy Carter and former first lady Rosalynn Carter at the Buffalo Cafe in Plains, Ga., March 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - President Jimmy Carter, center, stands with his daughter, Amy, as she waves to other children on the street in the Georgetown section of Washington, guarded by U.S. Secret Service agents, June 8, 1977. Carter went to Georgetown to dine at the home of Office of Management and Budget director Bert Lance. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
FILE - Former President Jimmy Carter, left, and his wife, former first lady Rosalynn Carter, sit together during a reception to celebrate their 75th anniversary, July 10, 2021, in Plains, Ga. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File)
FILE - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., center, and Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, right, embrace during a campaign rally where King declared, "I love and believe in him," in Atlanta, April 13, 1976. In a prepared speech read by Atlanta businessman Jesse Hill, left, King said Carter has been for equal justice when it wasn't an easy thing to be for in South Georgia. (AP Photo, File)

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