“He’s a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and
he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some
of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to
inject its power through military means in other parts of the world.”

– Jimmy Carter on Vice President Dick Cheney in an
interview with BBC World News America, October 10, 2007

“Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because
human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.”

– Jimmy Carter at the White House commemorating
the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, December 1978

“I don’t laugh at people anymore when they say
they’ve seen UFOs. I’ve seen one myself.”

 – Jimmy Carter at a Southern Governors Conference, 1976