Jimmy Carter Quotes

We're not children here. The law is-how should I put it? A convenience. Or a convenience for some people, and an inconvenience for other people.

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.

President's are compelled to shout across the gap between politics and society.

The important decisions of the country are being made by a smaller and smaller group in the White House…. The Executive Branch has lost the ability to use the resources that are there [The Civil Servants].

The Internet is an élite organization; most of the population of the world has never even made a phone call.

You see the problem of an unstable White House from the outside and worry about it. But from the inside, it is 50 times worse.

The people working in the administration of this president [Donald Trump] do not know from day to day whether their job exists of what it is.

I have not ruled out running for the presidency. I hope some people will run against the President [Donald Trump] in the Republican presidential primary so that Republicans can see what it means to be a decent Republican again.

Some people are really good at the visionary role. They're like third grade teachers who tell people the vision and values over and over and over until they get it right, right, right. But they're not implementers. If they're good leaders, they gather people around them who can take the implementation role and move it forward.

Some people need a command-and-control environment.

I guess if you have had a good education as opposed to someone who hasn't been to school, you start off on this journey having studied Shakespeare for years and years or studied classics. I suppose why people see this big divide - the boarding school boys getting all the roles - is because they feel like some people have had a head start.

Our regulatory bodies strive to create honest dealings, fair trades, and a situation in which no one has an advantage over anyone else. But human beings aren't honest. And all trades are made because one person thinks he's getting the better of the other, and the other person thinks the same.

I do not have an issue with specific countries or companies; what I'm interested in are schemes which allow for preferential treatment, for selectivity... If this has to change, it's countries that will have to change this.

Some people want to win races. Other people want to be President of the United States.

It's not fair that people save and work and pay for phones from whatever funds they have, and other people get them for free.

People across metro Detroit face discrimination every day in housing, employment, insurance - the list goes on. It might not always be explicit and in your face, but my residents know when they're being mistreated.

There is no point helping some people when, the next day or when the next family comes into your office, you are not able to help them.

But the truth is the meritocracy is a lie. Those born into wealth and privilege will always be able to game the system for their own benefit and their children's own benefit.

I'm very keen that we have this debate about the good parts of inequality and the bad parts of inequality. It's not a one-sided thing.

I don't want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.

Some people may say wrong decisions belong in football, but if a final is decided in the 90th minute by a wrong decision, for me that is not a fair result.

I think what we forget is that everybody loses when we keep unnecessary privilege. The cost to society overall is much greater.

There clearly was an Obama administration no-holds-barred attempt to clear the path to the presidency for Hillary Clinton.

Obama is the first African-American president, and for some people, that means a great deal, and for some people, it means very little.

The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment and statistics, leaving the left with emotion. Its heart is in the right place.