Jimmy Carter Quotes

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.

I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.

I am very optimistic, and I always think positive, but within reason and never getting too far ahead of the game.

I'm always the "less is more" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard, but takes the one before it and plays the game.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I'm competitive, but that doesn't stop me from being realistic.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

I'm very pragmatic.

I always try to be reasonable and effective.

You've got to be realistic.

I'm not very keen for doves or hawks. I think we need more owls.

What matters most is finding practical, pragmatic solutions .... Ideological purity is for partisan extremists.

I want to be progressive without getting both feet off the ground at the same time.

I believe that being conservative means you try to get in to the middle of the fight and try to solve the problem.

Keep things in perspective. It's never quite as good as it seems, it's never quite as bad as it seems.

Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.

I like to be an optimist, but I like to be a realist, too.

What I've learned is that life is a balance between idealism and realism.

I'm progressive, and I'm practical.

I'm pragmatic.

It is my mission to put sensible and evidence-based information above politics and exaggeration.

Not every Democratic idea is a good one; not every Republican idea is a bad one.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?