Jimmy Carter Quotes About Cold War

Quotes about: Cold War

• We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, War, Rain

  "Nobel Prize for Peace". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 25, 1991.

• Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, War, Office

  Jimmy Carter (2013). “Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President”, p.229, University of Arkansas Press

• My opinion of the Russians has changed most drastically in the last week than even (sic) the two-and-a-half years before that. It's only now dawning upon the world the magnitude of the action that the Soviets undertook in invading Afghanistan.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, Years, Two

• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  War, White, House

  "Interview: President Jimmy Carter Talks About His New Bible and Christian Beliefs". Interview with Katherine T. Phan, www.christianpost.com. March 30, 2012.

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