Political Quotes

On the recordFebruary 24, 1980
I think history has shown that it has never worked except during a time of intense crisis.
Said by
Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Interview With the President Remarks and a Question-and-Answer Session With Editors and News Directors

Share & report

More from Jimmy Carter

Sep 15, 2009

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

transcripts.cnn.com
Sep 15, 2009

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have buried Obama with Kennedy, those kind of things are beyond the bounds of the way presidents have ever been accepted, even with people who disagree.

transcripts.cnn.com
Nov 29, 2006

The title was very carefully chosen by me. And the first word is the most important. It's Palestine. The land of the Palestinians. It doesn't refer to Israel at all.

transcripts.cnn.com
Nov 29, 2006

I think the last report I saw was that 28 loans have been made for people to rebuild their own homes.

transcripts.cnn.com

Other voices in this conversation