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Quotes by Jimmy Carter
- Testing oneself is best when done alone.
- The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
- The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
- The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.
- 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 fact is that we would have had comprehensive health care now, had it not been for Ted Kennedy's deliberately blocking the legislation that I proposed in 1978 or '79.
- There's no doubt that usually a president's public image is enhanced by going to war. That never did appeal to me.
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