All JIMMY CARTER Quotes about “Democracy”

“Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things - he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.”
“America does not at the moment have a functioning democracy.”
“We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.”
“America has no functioning democracy at this moment.”
“I think with the advent of Reagan, and subsequently, both parties, there's been a strong move towards the advantage given to the richer people, in taxation and grants and supplements and things of that kind. Primarily exacerbated more recently by the Supreme Court's stupid ruling on Citizens United, and now there's a massive flood of money into the political system that I think has subverted the essence of a moral and ethical standard that used to permeate American democracy. Now it's not an admirable process. I think we've gone backwards.”
“Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.”
“We must make it clear that a platform of 'I hate gay men and women' is not a way to become president of the United States.”
“The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.”
“The first year I was in office, only about 800 people came out of the Soviet Union, Jews. By the third year I was in office... second year, 1979, 51,000 came out of the Soviet Union. And every one of the human rights heroes - I'll use the word - who have come out of the Soviet Union, have said it was a turning point in their lives, and not only in the Soviet Union but also in places like Czechoslovakia and Hungary and Poland [they] saw this human rights policy of mine as being a great boost to the present democracy and freedom that they enjoy.”
“Trust is very much a part of our democracy.”
“In general the 53 countries on the continent of Africa have made great progress towards freedom and democracy, and in terms of electing good, sound administrations.”
“When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.”
“The respect for human rights is one of the most significant advantages of a free and democratic nation in the peaceful struggle for influence, and we should use this good weapon as effectively as possible.”

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Political activist
Barack Obama
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George H. W. Bush
41st U.S. President
George W. Bush
43rd U.S. President
Gerald R. Ford
38th U.S. President
John F. Kennedy
35th U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson
36th U.S. President
Richard M. Nixon
37th U.S. President
Ronald Reagan
40th U.S. President
Rosalynn Carter
Former First Lady of the United States
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