Jimmy Carter Quotes

The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.

Jimmy Carter

• Friendship
• United States
• Israel

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• The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Feeling
  • Like
  • Friendship

• There's still a role for the Association for Israel Studies. But not as the endpoint of scholarship and not as a fortress to defend Israel.

  

  Ian Lustick
  • Role
  • Israel
  • Scholarship

• When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Character
  • Friends
  • Personality

• I firmly believe, only because I've been doing this for so long, every show takes three years. 90% of them don't get three years. It just does. It takes a long time to build a community, build a friendship with your characters. It's hard for people to grasp on and make them care about you.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beginning
  • Realize
  • Israel

• The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the United States reactionaries use to scare people. It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • People
  • United States
  • Tiger

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Conflict
  • Israel
  • Heights

• There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Friend
  • Morning
  • Friendship

• A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Love
  • Man
  • Friendship

• I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.

  

  Kate del Castillo
  • Matter
  • United States
  • Where

• Those who insist on having hostilities with us, kill and destroy the option of friendship with us in the future, which is unfortunate because it is clear the future belongs to Iran and that enmities will be fruitless.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Future
  • Friendship
  • Option

• In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Free
  • United States
  • Oyster

• The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Simple
  • Land
  • Israel

• I'm the president of the United States. I'm not the emperor of the United States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • President
  • United States

• The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Doing
  • United States
  • Frame

• We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Country
  • Mean
  • United States

• Poland is an ally of the United States of America. It was our duty to show that we are a reliable, loyal, and predictable ally. America needed our help, and we had to give it.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • America
  • Help
  • United States

• Running on the pledge to end two wars, President Obama has the country entangled in three: Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and that doesn't include the American's foray into Libya.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Country
  • American
  • Running

• Just as I know the usual rules of law enforcement, I also know the exceptions and invoke those frequently. I don't feel a need to bog the reader down with an explanation of why the procedures are realistic, as long as I know that there is, in fact, an explanation.

  

  Alafair Burke
  • Long
  • Why
  • Law

• Let your family, staff, and friends know that you're still the same person, despite all the publicity and notoriety that accompanies your position.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Family
  • Friends

• The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Religions
  • Interference
  • Ringing

• The United States...has a warm and a unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America's own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel's security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer the world.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Friendship
  • United States
  • Israel