"James Earl" ""Jimmy"" "Carter, Jr." is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party (United States)/Democratic Party who served as the List of Presidents of the United States/39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was awarded the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize.

Carter, raised in rural Georgia, was a peanut farmer who served two terms as a Georgia Senate/Georgia State Senator and one as the List of Governors of Georgia/Governor of Georgia, from 1971 to 1975. He United States presidential election, 1976/was elected President in 1976, defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in a relatively close election, running as an outsider who promised truth in government in the wake of the Watergate scandal. He is the second oldest (after George H. W. Bush) of America's four living former presidents.

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Unless both sides win, no agreement can be permanent.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honour nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America.

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.

We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.

One of the most basic principles for making and keeping peace within and between nations. . . is that in political, military, moral, and spiritual confrontations, there should be an honest attempt at the reconciliation of differences before resorting to combat.