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Date of Birth
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01-October-1924
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Place of Birth
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Plains
(Sumter County, Georgia, United States of America)
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Nationality
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United States of America
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Also know as
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., James Earl Carter, President Jimmy Carter, James Earl Carter Jr., Former President Jimmy Carter, Governor Jimmy Carter, President Carter, Deacon, James Earl Carter, Jr., James Earl Carter, Jr., James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., James Earl Carter, Governador Jimmy Carter, Presidente Jimmy Carter, James Earl Carter Jr., Ex-Presidente Jimmy Carter, Presidente Carter, Diácono, James Earl Carter, Jr.
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Profession
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Writer, Politician, Novelist, Author, Farmer, Statesman, Military Officer
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Quotes
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- We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business.
- I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
- Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the President and the Congress to govern this Nation. This difficult effort will be the moral equivalent of war, except that we will be uniting our efforts to build and not to destroy.
- You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
- A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
- 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 countryenergy and malaise.
- America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
- Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford and poor people cant. But I dont believe that the Federal Government should take action to try to make these opportunities exactly equal, particularly when there is a moral factor involved.
- We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
- We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
- According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle. Well, Hubert Humphrey may have sinned in the eyes of God, as we all do, but according to those definitions of Gandhis, it was Hubert Humphrey without sin.
- We are a purely idealistic Nation, but let no one confuse our idealism with weakness.
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office. Before he became President, Carter served as a U.S. Naval officer, was a peanut farmer, served two terms as a Georgia State Senator and one as the Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975.
During Carter's term as President, he created two new cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price control, and new technology. In foreign affairs, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords, the Panama Canal Treaties, the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, and returned the Panama Canal Zone to Panama. He took office during a period of international stagnation and inflation, which persisted throughout his term. The end of his presidential tenure was marked by the 1979–1981 Iran hostage crisis, the 1979 energy crisis, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state.
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