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Jimmy Carter

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Keberanian

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

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Nasihat

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

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Kreativitas

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

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Pendidikan

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

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Kebahagiaan

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

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Perjuangan

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

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Kehidupan

The fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.

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Kreativitas

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

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Kreativitas

Ever since Israel has been a nation the United States has provided the leadership. Every president down to the ages has done this in a fairly balanced way, including George Bush senior, Gerald Ford, and others including myself and Bill Clinton.

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Kehidupan

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.

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Cinta

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

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Kreativitas

Unfortunately, after Sept. 11, there was an outburst in America of intense suffering and patriotism, and the Bush administration was very shrewd and effective in painting anyone who disagreed with the policies as unpatriotic or even traitorous.

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Pendidikan

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.

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Pendidikan

We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

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Perjuangan

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

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Nasihat

Because I know about the Holy Land, I've taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and - but you can't bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

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Motivasi

My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.

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Keluarga

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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Kreativitas

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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Perjuangan

There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.

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