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“[…] un sistema di apartheid con due popoli sulla stessa terra ma completamente separati uno dall'altro, con gli israeliani completamente dominanti che reprimono la violenza privando i palestinesi dei loro elementari diritti umani. Questa è la politica perseguita attualmente.”

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da Palestine: Peace not Apartheid; citato in Joseph Halevi, Quell'apartheid nel titolo che Israele non gli perdonerà mai, Il manifesto, 19 aprile 2008

“Grazie alla grandezza dello Scià, l'Iran è un'isola di stabilità nel Medio Oriente.”

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“Una volta, Meles mi mostrò dove venti carri armati del Derg si erano insediati a sud d'un piccolo fiume, pronti a contrattaccare le sue truppe. C'era un ponte attraverso il ruscello, e chiesi a Meles come mai non lo facesse saltare in aria per impederire un futuro attacco. Egli sorrise, e rispose che non voleva distruggere la nazione che presto il suo popolo governerà.”

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“Meles era un uomo piccolo, silenzioso e personalmente modesto, ma parlava con piena autorità e sicurezza di sé.”

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“Lo Scià non solo era stato un forte ed affidabile alleato degli Stati Uniti per molti anni, ma rimase il leader intorno a cui speravamo di vedere un governo stabile e riformato organizzato e mantenuto in Iran. Conoscevamo poco delle forze che lo contestavano, ma i loro slogan e le loro dichiarazioni antiamericane bastavano da soli a rafforzare la nostra determinazione nel dare il nostro appoggio allo Scià mentre lottava per sopravvivere.”

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Jimmy Carter: Frasi in inglese

“A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people”

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Dedication address upon installing 32 solar panels on the roof of the White House (20 June 1979), as quoted in "Where Did the Carter White House's Solar Panels Go?" by David Biello, in Scientific American (6 August 2010) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carter-white-house-solar-panel-array/. The solar panels would later removed by Ronald Reagan and some eventually were displayed in museums, including the Smithsonian Institute, and the Solar Science and Technology Museum in Dezhou, China. Presidency (1977–1981) Contesto: In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy…. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.

“Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”

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Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.
Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981)

“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.”

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Addressing a Bible class in Plains, Georgia (March 1976), as quoted in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (11 April 1976)
Pre-Presidency

“When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.”

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Page 186
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“With massive arsenals still on hair-trigger alert, a global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.”

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Page 141
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“In repudiating extremism, we need to recommit ourselves to a few common-sense principles that should transcend partisan differences.
First, we cannot enhance our own security if we place in jeopardy what is most precious to us, namely the centrality of human rights in our daily lives and in global affairs.
Second, we cannot maintain our historic self-confidence as a people if we generate public panic.
Third, we cannot do our duty as citizens and patriots if we pursue an agenda that polarizes and divides our country.
Next, we cannot be true to ourselves if we mistreat others.
And finally, in the world at large, we cannot lead if our leaders mislead.”

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Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)

“The existing and long-standing use of the word 'evolution' in our state's textbooks has not adversely affected Georgians' belief in the omnipotence of God as creator of the universe, There can be no incompatibility between Christian faith and proven facts concerning geology, biology, and astronomy. 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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Carter slams Georgia's 'evolution' proposal, 30 January, 2004 http://edition.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/01/30/georgia.evolution/ Post-Presidency

“We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.”

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Statement in an interview on SuperSoul Sunday http://www.supersoul.tv/supersoul-sunday/jimmy-carter-on-whether-he-could-be-president-today-absolutely-not/ with Oprah Winfrey, as quoted in "Jimmy Carter Tells Oprah America Is No Longer a Democracy, Now an Oligarchy" by Jon Levine, in .Mic (24 September 2015) https://mic.com/articles/125813/jimmy-carter-tells-oprah-america-is-no-longer-a-democracy-now-an-oligarchy Post-Presidency

“Ultimately, the basic issue is whether America will provide global leadership that springs from the unity and the integrity of the American people, or whether extremist doctrines, the manipulation of the truth, will define America's role in the world.
At stake is nothing less than our nation's soul.”

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Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)

“Today, our dominant international challenge is to restore the greatness of America, based on telling the truth, a commitment to peace, and respect for civil liberties at home and basic human rights around the world.
Truth is the foundation of our global leadership, but our credibility has been shattered and we are left increasingly isolated and vulnerable in a hostile world.
Without truth, without trust, America cannot flourish. Trust is at the very heart of our democracy, the sacred covenant between a president and the people.
When that trust is violated, the bonds that hold our republic together begin to weaken.”

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Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)

“It is good to know that our nation's defenses against a conventional attack are impregnable, and an imperative that America remain vigilant against threats from terrorists. But as is the case with a human being, admirable characteristics of a nation are not defined by size and physical prowess. What are some of the other attributes of a superpower? Once again, they might very well mirror those of a person. These would include a demonstrable commitment to truth, justice, peace, freedom, humility, human rights, generosity, and the upholding of other moral values.”

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Page 199
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. 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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Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)

“There is a strong religious commitment to the sanctity of human life, but, paradoxically, some of the most fervent protectors of microscopic stem cells are the most ardent proponents of the death penalty.”

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Page 78
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president.”

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Post-Presidency, DNC address (2004)

“I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.”

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(Feb 22, 2012) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57570712/jimmy-carter-obama-thanked-my-grandson-who-discovered-romneys-47-video/ Post-Presidency

“Eight years before he became vice president, Richard Cheney spelled out this premise in his "Defense Strategy for the 1990s." Either before or soon after 9/11, he and his close associates chose Iraq as the first major target, apparently to remove a threat to Israel and to have Iraq serve as our permanent military, economic, and political base in the Middle East.”

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Page 100
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“There is a new mood in America. We have been shaken by a tragic war abroad and by scandals and broken promises at home. Our people are searching for new voices and new ideas and new leaders.
Although government has its limits and cannot solve all our problems, we Americans reject the view that we must be reconciled to failures and mediocrity, or to an inferior quality of life. For I believe that we can come through this time of trouble stronger than ever. Like troops who have been in combat, we have been tempered in the fire; we have been disciplined, and we have been educated.
Guided by lasting and simple moral values, we have emerged idealists without illusions, realists who still know the old dreams of justice and liberty, of country and of community.”

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Pre-Presidency, First Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech (1976)

“I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace.”

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Page 147
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't.”

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The correct attribution http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/carterpoor.asp is comedian John Fugelsang, on the TV program Viewpoint (29 May 2013) Misattributed

“It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men.”

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As quoted in "Jimmy Carter 3.0: Building a post-presidential legacy" by Adelle M. Banks, in Religion News Service (28 May 2014) http://www.religionnews.com/2014/05/28/jimmy-carter-3-0-building-post-presidential-legacy/ Post-Presidency

“I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.”

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Interview with reporters, as quoted in "Carter condemns abortion culture" in The Washington Times (3 November 2005) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051103-111740-7148r.htm Post-Presidency

“We believe in the right of every country to be free from interference in its own internal affairs by another country. And we believe that world peace can come — which we both devoutly hope to see — through mutual respect, even among those who have some differences between us.
Our goals are also the same, to have a just system of economics and politics, to let the people of the world share in growth, in peace, in personal freedom, and in the benefits to be derived from the proper utilization of natural resources. We believe in enhancing human rights. We believe that we should enhance, as independent nations, the freedom of our own people.”

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Welcoming ceremony for Nicolae Ceauşescu of Romania (12 April 1978), Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978 Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978, p. 735
Presidency (1977–1981), 1978

“Most Nobel Laureates have carried out our work in safety, but there are others who have acted with great personal courage. None has provided more vivid reminders of the dangers of peacemaking than two of my friends, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin, who gave their lives for the cause of peace in the Middle East.”

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Post-Presidency, Nobel lecture (2002)

“For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated.”

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Page 151
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise.”

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Remarks at a town meeting, Bardstown, Kentucky (31 July 1979), referring to his The Crisis of Confidence address (he did not actually use the word "malaise" in that earlier speech), Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1979, Book 2, p. 1340
Presidency (1977–1981), 1978

“Some devout Christians are among the most fervent advocates of the death penalty, contradicting Jesus Christ and justifying their belief on an erroneous interpretation of Hebrew Scriptures. "An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth," their most likely response, overlooks the fact that this was promulgated by Moses as a limitation- a prohibition against taking both eyes or all of an offender's teeth in retribution.”

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Page 82
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)

“We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians.”

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spoken on the Diane Rehm Show.
Post-Presidency

“It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.”

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Pages 125-126
Post-Presidency, Our Endangered Values (2005)