Political Quotes

On the recordMarch 27, 1978
We both believe that people in every part of the world, under every economic system, should have democratic rights to participate in their own government and to shape their own destiny.
Said by
Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Toast at a State Dinner in Caracas, Venezuela

Share & report

More from Jimmy Carter

Sep 12, 2006

I respectfully disagree with what President Bush had to say. I don't think that the safety of America depends at all on the extended presence of U.S. troops in Iraq.

transcripts.cnn.com
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
Jan 18, 1981

I will have signed an Executive Order directing American banks located within the United States which hold Iranian deposits to transfer those deposits...

presidency.ucsb.edu
Sep 15, 2009

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity towards President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

transcripts.cnn.com

Other voices in this conversation