Jimmy Carter Quotes

The evidence of a Jewish civilization going back more than two millennia is overwhelmingly borne out in the archaeology of the region. The heritage of the Jews in Palestine is documented.

Shall They Return to Jerusalem Again?

I feel that the Jews have always had a special connection to this part of the world, which in geographical terms was called Palestine for so many centuries.

I love the nation of Israel. I love Jewish people. My King was Jewish, and I embrace that.

When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish.

I am extremely respectful of the Jewish community. You know, I am Christian. I think of Jews as my older brothers. I mean, there wouldn't be Christianity without the Jewish religion. There is a direct connection between the two of them.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

I study Torah all the time.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.

I am not conventionally religious, but I am an ongoing student of the Old and the New Testament and the history of the Jewish people and the birth of Christianity.

I feel that I am completely in solidarity with Jews in the world, because I know what it is to be a Jew. I've seen what it is; I am myself of Jewish origin, and therefore I can only be fully in support of the idea that the Jews, after all they've suffered, need a country where they are at home.

Water is the basis for Jewish existence in the Land of Israel.

[Jews have] a particular need, evidently greater than that of any others, to pay more careful attention to education.

[The Jews] are the people of the Book [ahl' ul-kitab.]

Jew Deal

The Jews are the most formidable and most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world.

Israelis are the total Jews.

Israel is truly, for me, before everything.

Israel always has a special filter to look at things, and that is the attitude toward Jews.

Tel Aviv was established in 1909 by a group of secular Jewish families; Judaism's origin story is about 2,000 years older.

I am a Jew, and I'm convinced that Israel is the homeland.

Judaism, Christianity, and I'm sure other religions also, are having to deal with the fact that they may or may not have lived up at all times to the injunctions of their own mystical center. For instance, when I went to Sunday school, I remember learning more about Jewish history than about God. So, once again, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with the Jewish religion, it just means that sometimes people are not fed the mystical food - the spiritual food - of their own religious background.