Jimmy Carter quotes
Unpatriotic quotes of Jimmy Carter a Democrat president
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"Iraq is an unjust war."
"The life of Palestinians is almost intolerable,"
"I have been disappointed in almost everything he [Bush] has done,”
"You know he's (Cheney) been a disaster for our country,"
"They (Bush Administration) have redefined torture to make it convenient for them,"
"In my opinion, the embargo strengthens Castro and perpetuates communism in Cuba."
"I think what's going on in Guantanamo Bay and other places is a disgrace to the U.S.A."
"We are completely in bed with the Israelis to the detriment of the wellbeing of the Palestinians."
"John McCain … weaves in his experience in a Vietnam prison camp, no matter what the question [is],"
"This war has been motivated by pride or arrogance, by a desire to control oil wealth, by a desire to implant our programs."
"I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration (Bush) has been the worst in history."
"One of the -- it's going to prove (Iraq War), I believe, to be one of the greatest blunders that American presidents have ever made."
"They (Bush Administration) have obviously subverted facts, that has been proven, and subversion of the law is now becoming more and more apparent,"
“I would put it (Invasion of Iraq) almost on an equal basis with Vietnam, yes. Those two in my lifetime certainly would be the worst two blunders.”
"I thought then, and I think now, that the invasion of Iraq was unnecessary and unjust. And I think the premises on which it was launched were false,"
"What has happened at Guantanamo Bay ... does not represent the will of the American people," Carter said Saturday. "I'm embarrassed about it, I think its wrong."
"So there's no doubt that our country is in much more danger now from terrorism than it would have been if we would have done what we should have done and stayed in Afghanistan,"
"Carter’s criticism of Bush’s infamous "axis of evil” remark. "I think it will take years before we can repair the damage done by that statement,”
"We only have to recall the color of the faces of those in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi who are most devastated by Katrina to know that there are not yet equal opportunities for all Americans,"
"Our government now has a strange and unprecedented and pervasive policy of not speaking to anybody who doesn't agree with us in advance on controversial issues. So we close the door, we go into a closet and pout,"
"I think he's one of the worst secretaries of defense we've ever had," the former president said of Rumsfeld. "Almost every decision he has made has aggravated his military subordinates and has also proved to be a mistake."
"Despite marshaling powerful armed forces in the Persian Gulf region and a virtual declaration of war in the State of the Union message, our government has not made a case for a pre-emptive military strike against Iraq,"
"There's no doubt that this administration (Bush) has made a radical and unpressured departure from the basic policies of all previous administrations including those of both Republican and Democratic presidents."
"And, I think a lot of the violence that takes place now in the streets of Iraq are caused by the fact that American troops are still there. I think that will in itself that change will automatically reduce the terrorism considerably."
"He's (Cheney) 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,"
"Well, obviously, it will be judged in retrospect after the whole thing is over which may be a few years in the future, but up until this point, it's been a horrible mistake. One of the worst mistakes we’ve made. I would say it would compare-- you could argue both sides with Vietnam.
"But his (Bush) administration and particularly the vice president and the secretary of defense have, I think, quite often deliberately misled the American people about the danger in Iraq to begin with, the causes for going to war in Iraq, and they have also misled the American people about what is happening in Iraq since we invaded."
"Under all of its predecessors there was a commitment to peace instead of preemptive war. Our country always had a policy of not going to war unless our own security was directly threatened and now we have a new policy of going to war on a preemptive basis."
"An effort to produce or deploy chemical or biological weapons or to make the slightest move toward a nuclear explosive would be inconceivable. If Iraq does possess such concealed weapons, as is quite likely, Saddam would use them only in the most extreme circumstances, in the face of an invasion of Iraq, when all hope of avoiding the destruction of his regime is lost."
"I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon. What happened is that Israel is holding almost 10,000 prisoners, so when the militants in Lebanon or in Gaza take one or two soldiers, Israel looks upon this as a justification for an attack on the civilian population of Lebanon and Gaza. I do not think that's justified, no."
"Everywhere you go, you hear, 'What has happened to the United States of America? We thought you used to be the champion of human rights. We thought you used to protect the environment. We thought you used to believe in the separation of church and state,"'
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