Jimmy Carter Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• In a nuclear age, each of us is threatened when peace is not secured everywhere.

  Jimmy Carter

  Peace, Age, Nuclear

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1978). “Jimmy Carter”

• I think that, regardless of our culture, age, or even personal handicaps, we can still strive for something exceptional. Why not expand our sights instead of restricting our lives and accepting the lowest common denominator of a dormant existence? Faith. . . will permit us to take a chance on a new path, perhaps different from the one we now follow. It may be surprising where it leads.

  Jimmy Carter

  Faith, Thinking, Sight

• The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

  Jimmy Carter

  Commitment, Age, Income

• We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.

  Jimmy Carter

  Pain, Grandparent, Joy

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter (1980). “Jimmy Carter”

• (Doctors) collectively have done more to block adequate medical care for people of this country than any other single group.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Block, Dark

• I think doctors care very deeply about their patients, but when they organize into the AMA, their responsibility is to the welfare of doctors, and quite often, these lobbying groups are the only ones that are heard in the state capitols and in the capitol of our country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Responsibility, Dark

• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Leadership, Senior, Israel

  "The US and Israel Stand Alone". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. August 15, 2006.

• All my playmates were black. I lived in a little community called Archery (ph) in a rural area. And I didn't have any white neighbors at all. So all my kids with whom I fought and wrestled and went fishing and worked in the field and so forth were African-Americans. And that was my life. So when I got to be school age, we had to separate during the daytime, but I always felt like I was in an alien environment when I was in Plains, Georgia with white kids. I was eager to get back where I belonged with my black playmates.

  Jimmy Carter

  School, Kids, Archery

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. December 10, 2004.

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