Jimmy Carter cytaty
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Jimmy Carter, właściwie James Earl Carter Jr. – amerykański polityk, działacz Partii Demokratycznej, 39. Prezydent USA w latach 1977 do 1981, a także międzynarodowy działacz humanitarny i na rzecz praw człowieka, laureat Pokojowej Nagrody Nobla w 2002, baptysta, Człowiek Roku 1976 według czasopisma „Time” oraz autor wielu książek.



✵ 1. Październik 1924
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Jimmy Carter: 163   Cytaty 1   Polubienie

Jimmy Carter słynne cytaty

„Patrzyłem na wiele kobiet z pożądaniem, ale Bóg wybaczy mi to. Wiele razy popełniłem cudzołóstwo w moim sercu.”

podczas kampanii wyborczej w roku 1976 w wywiadzie dla Playboya. Niektórzy atakowali go za to stwierdzenie, twierdząc, iż nie przystoi to kaznodziei w kościele baptystów (a Carter takim jest), ale inni chwalili za brak obłudy i uczciwość charakteru.

„Iran pod przewodnictwem szacha jest wyspą stabilności w jednym z najbardziej niespokojnych rejonów świata.”

w 1977.
Źródło: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 8

„Jeżeli Kennedy odważy się kandydować, to złoję mu tyłek.”

If Kennedy runs, I'll whip his ass. (ang.)
o Tedzie Kennedym, na wieść, że zamierza stanąć do walki o nominację demokratów w wyborach prezydenckich w 1980 r.
Źródło: „New York Post”, 13 czerwca 1979

Jimmy Carter cytaty

„Rząd jest tak dobry, jak jego ludzie.”

o administracji George'a W. Busha.

„Nie powinniśmy angażować się w sprawy innego kraju, chyba, że stanowi on zagrożenie dla naszego bezpieczeństwa.”

Źródło: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States (2012), tłum. Anna Rajca, Mirosław Filipowicz, odcinek 8

Jimmy Carter: Cytaty po angielsku

“A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people”

Dedication address upon installing 32 solar panels on the roof of the White House (20 June 1979), as quoted in "Where Did the Carter White House's Solar Panels Go?" by David Biello, in Scientific American (6 August 2010) http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/carter-white-house-solar-panel-array/. The solar panels would later removed by Ronald Reagan and some eventually were displayed in museums, including the Smithsonian Institute, and the Solar Science and Technology Museum in Dezhou, China.
Presidency (1977–1981)
Kontekst: In the year 2000 this solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy…. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people.

“Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself.”

Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use.
Message to Congress (2 August 1977)
Presidency (1977–1981)

“We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.”

Addressing a Bible class in Plains, Georgia (March 1976), as quoted in Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (11 April 1976)
Pre-Presidency

“We've become now an oligarchy instead of a democracy. And I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards of the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.”

Statement in an interview on SuperSoul Sunday http://www.supersoul.tv/supersoul-sunday/jimmy-carter-on-whether-he-could-be-president-today-absolutely-not/ with Oprah Winfrey, as quoted in "Jimmy Carter Tells Oprah America Is No Longer a Democracy, Now an Oligarchy" by Jon Levine, in .Mic (24 September 2015) https://mic.com/articles/125813/jimmy-carter-tells-oprah-america-is-no-longer-a-democracy-now-an-oligarchy
Post-Presidency

“I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.”

(Feb 22, 2012) http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57570712/jimmy-carter-obama-thanked-my-grandson-who-discovered-romneys-47-video/
Post-Presidency

“If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't.”

The correct attribution http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/carterpoor.asp is comedian John Fugelsang, on the TV program Viewpoint (29 May 2013)
Misattributed

“It would be a fruitless search to look through the Scriptures and find one single instance where Jesus did not treat women either equal or superior to men.”

As quoted in "Jimmy Carter 3.0: Building a post-presidential legacy" by Adelle M. Banks, in Religion News Service (28 May 2014) http://www.religionnews.com/2014/05/28/jimmy-carter-3-0-building-post-presidential-legacy/
Post-Presidency

“I can't deny I'm a better ex-president than I was a president.”

Interview with reporters, as quoted in "Carter condemns abortion culture" in The Washington Times (3 November 2005) http://www.washtimes.com/national/20051103-111740-7148r.htm
Post-Presidency

“I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country — energy and malaise.”

Remarks at a town meeting, Bardstown, Kentucky (31 July 1979), referring to his The Crisis of Confidence address (he did not actually use the word "malaise" in that earlier speech), Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1979, Book 2, p. 1340
Presidency (1977–1981), 1978

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