“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.”

—  Jimmy Carter

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