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It took Jimmy Carter to give us Ronald Reagan. -- Ted Cruz
Teddy Roosevelt... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter. -- Gerald R. Ford
If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. -- David Horowitz
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' -- Jimmy Carter
I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote. -- Megan Gallagher
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is. -- Earl Sweatshirt
I would do 'John Carter' again tomorrow. I'm very proud of 'John Carter.' Box office doesn't validate me as a person, or as an actor. -- Taylor Kitsch
One thing in my defense, not that it matters: I know something Carter never knew, or Helene, or maybe you. I know what "nothing" means, and keep on playing. -- Joan Didion
Indeed, one modern President abjured God altogether, ending speeches with a chaste 'Thank you very much.' This was Jimmy Carter, the most genuinely devout President of the postwar period. -- Jonathan Rauch
Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush. -- Ann Coulter
Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do. -- Thuy Trang
Lynda Carter, I think the reason I liked her was because she was so down to earth. Even though she was a big star and she was Miss America, she was very approachable. -- Thuy Trang
I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s. -- Constance Baker Motley
During the Reagan Administration, Bob Dole was present at a ceremony that included each living ex-president. Looking at a tableau of Ford, Carter and Nixon, Dole said, 'There they are: Hear No Evil, See No Evil and Evil.' -- Al Franken
I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence. -- Michele Bachmann
Three American presidents-Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon B. Johnson-have asked the question: What do we get from aiding Pakistan? Five-Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama-have wondered aloud whether Pakistan's leaders can be trusted to keep their word. -- Husain Haqqani
My father, Fred Carter, Jr., is definitely an extraordinaire. -- Deana Carter
At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. -- Jimmy Carter
How can you be any purer than pure if your name is Carter? How can you get away from being a Carter? There's a part of you that's gonna come through. How do you keep from doing it? It's what you're born to do. -- June Carter Cash
Carter couldn't elect a dog-catcher. -- Ed Koch
The Billy Carter of the British monarchy. -- Robert Lacey
You can't argue with math, Carter. You'll always lose. -- Nora Roberts
Scholars, street knowledge, Carter kids stuck in the projects. -- Big Pun
Carter is the best President the Soviet Union ever had. -- William Safire
I will say that Lynda Carter is an awesome woman. -- Lynn Collins
I'm too sexy for a grocery store. John Carter Quinn -- Leigh James
Sean Carter is nice but Sean Price is the best -- Sean Price
The Democrats never fight about who is more like Jimmy Carter. -- Marco Rubio
When I grow up I want to be just like Benny Carter! -- Dizzy Gillespie
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education. -- Miles Davis
Solar Power Seen Meeting 20% of Needs by 2000; Carter May Seek Outlay Boost -- Walt Mossberg
If I were a flowerpot, I would've checked my hair. ~Carter Kane -- Rick Riordan
If I hadn't been so outspoken, Jimmy Carter wouldn't have wanted me. -- Andrew Young
I don't know what people have against Jimmy Carter. He's done nothing. -- Bob Hope
Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton and the Obama girls all had to change schools. -- Susan Ford
I admire Elliott Carter endlessly. But I have no ambitions to emulate him. -- Andre Previn
The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat. -- Ronald Reagan
[Carter just asked when I became a ram whisperer. Do shut up, Carter] -- Rick Riordan
My name is Carter Kane. I'm fourteen and my home is a suitcase. -- Rick Riordan
Only a few reporters...discerned that Anderson really combined Carter's ineptness with Reagan's simplicities. -- Edwin Diamond
Why are they so sad?" I asked. "Well, they're dead," Carter speculated. -- Rick Riordan
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President Obama is a president so weak that he makes Jimmy Carter look strong. -- Newt Gingrich
Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane -- Rick Riordan
Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister's cat Muffin. -- Rick Riordan
I'd appreciate a phone call before you try to break into my office again-Matthew Carter -- Natasha Larry
Maybe being home schooled, Carter didn't realize that "test" is normally a bad thing. -- Rick Riordan
Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' -- Barack Obama
I'm an advocate for gay marriage. I have more gay friends than Carter has pills. -- Patti Stanger
I'm looking for a president that'll be like a Ronald Reagan to a Jimmy Carter. -- Rudy Giuliani
It was not malaise we suffered from; it was Jimmy Carter - and Walter Mondale. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
We can't make a portal"?" "We've got a flying boat," Carter offered. -- Rick Riordan
We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart. -- Wynonna Judd
Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. -- Mort Sahl
He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower. -- Shirley MacLaine
I've never met a woman ever, anywhere, bar none, that was more feminine than Dixie Carter. -- Jean Smart
I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty. -- Gene Weingarten
No one can sing like June Carter so I just tried to sing my very best. -- Reese Witherspoon
I like people who dress quirkly and differently. Like in womenswear, thank god for Helena Bonham Carter! -- Helena Christensen
We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations. -- Gary Locke
President Obama was the most liberal and most incompetent president in my lifetime ever since Jimmy Carter. -- Bobby Jindal
President Carter inherited an impossible situation -- and he and his advisers made the worst of it. -- Gaddis Smith
The first thing we pulled out was a lump of white gunk. "Wax," Carter pronounced. "Fascinating. -- Rick Riordan
I've met a handful of presidents, from Jimmy Carter to Bill Clinton to George Bush to Barack Obama. -- Jimmie Johnson
The reason he [Jimmy Carter] says he never lies is because he thinks the truth originates with him. -- Lester Maddox
I've had some wonderful times at the White House. I've been with Ford, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush. -- Dom DeLuise
I would've hit the water hard, but at the last second I changed into a falcon. ~Carter Kane -- Rick Riordan
Jimmy Carter as President is like Truman Capote marrying Dolly Parton. The job is just too big for him. -- Rich Little
Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya. -- Eric Alterman
Have you ever wanted to put on a Santa suit?" "I have always wanted to do that," said Carter gravely. -- Richelle Mead
Denzel has been that leading man, but it took him a while to get to Training Day and Hurricane Carter. -- Shemar Moore
Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it. -- Walter Annenberg
Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp. -- Kool Keith
There are examples of ex-presidents speaking out. Jimmy Carter has not held back on a variety of issues. Harry Truman didn't. -- Robert Dallek
[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling. -- Emmett Tyrrell
Without Jimmy Carter we might not have gotten Ronald Reagan, without Ronald Reagan there would probably still be a Soviet Union. -- Newt Gingrich
Obama, like Carter, is reacting to warning signs by seeking to split the difference between dispirited Democrats and increasingly radicalized Republicans. -- Eric Alterman
Good can still exist when bad things happen, just as evil persists when good things happen." - Carter to Georgina -- Richelle Mead
Carter leaned toward me and brushed the hair away from the side of my face. "Don't look down then," he whispered. -- Richelle Mead
I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash. -- Iris Dement
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I must admit I'm impressed, Sadie. You controlled your magic and controlled Isis. And you, Carter, did well turning into a lizard. -- Rick Riordan
There should be full engagement to protect our country from a grave threat, which is the weakest foreign policy since Jimmy Carter. -- Jeb Bush
I would like to hear Elliot Carter's Fourth String Quartet, if only to discover what a cranky prostate does to one's polyphony. -- James Sellars
One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history. -- Thomas Sowell
Billy Carter, who asked his brother Jimmy, Do you think you could get me on the Gong Show? Never got a dinner! -- Red Buttons
Recession is when your neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his. -- Ronald Reagan
There's nothing here," Carter said. "What do you want?" I asked. "We've got wax, some toilet papyrus, an ugly statue. -- Rick Riordan
I found that things weren't going well upstairs. Carter was a crumpled heap of chicken warrior on the slope of the pyramid. -- Rick Riordan
Don't worry, America. We survived Jimmy Carter, and we will survive Barack Obama. Only one questions remains... who is the next Ronald Reagan? -- Kathleen Troia McFarland
President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed. -- Andrew Young
...my least favorite actress of all time, Helena Bonham Carter. I find her lack of a neck very off-putting and especially her acting. -- Edward Gorey
Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe. Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever [Jimmy] Carter says, as quickly as possible. -- Ann Coulter
I was a middle-of-the-road Democrat more than anything else. I know I voted for Carter. Watergate taught me how bad the Republicans were. -- Dave Barry
Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith. -- Josh McDowell
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But not like this: not with the house just an afterimage, and my mom a spirit, and my dad...recycled." "Carter Kane, Chapter 41 -- Rick Riordan
One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy. -- Stewart Udall
Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us. -- Paul Kengor
For an absurd moment, I wondered if Ammit devoured the hearts of wicked cows, and if he liked the beefy taste. - Carter Kane -- Rick Riordan
Love is rarely flawless," Carter pointed out. "Humans delude themselves by thinking it has to be. It is the imperfection that makes love perfect. -- Richelle Mead
Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western. -- William Monahan
This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world." "Michael Jackson lived here?" "No, dummy," Carter said. "Elvis Presley. -- Rick Riordan
Bush met with former President Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter is 76 years old, or as Democrats call him 'their bright new star of the future.' -- David Letterman
[On Jimmy Carter] "Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he puts nostalgia in its place. -- Marshall McLuhan
Wonder Woman was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride. -- Constance Marie
Wonder Woman' was on TV when I was growing up, and I knew Lynda Carter was part Latina. It gave me a great sense of pride. -- Constance Marie
Desjardins was literally fuming. His tattered robes still smoked from battle. (Carter says I shouldn't mention that his pink boxer shorts were showing, but they were!) -- Rick Riordan
In his 4 years in the White House, President Carter worked to make the Federal Government more competent and compassionate and more responsive to the American people. -- Nathan Deal
What changed their mind was Jimmy Carter's intervention against the Christian schools, trying to deny them tax-exempt status on the basis of so-called de facto segregation. -- Paul Weyrich
It would be bad for the economy if we have another Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy, Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter grain embargo, Jimmy Carter grain embargo. -- Dan Quayle
Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore. -- George Carlin
My face felt like my normal face, as if that part of me hadn't transformed into a bird. [Fine, Sadie. Call me the Carter-headed chicken. Happy?] -- Rick Riordan
If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports from Saudi Arabia today. -- Jay Inslee
The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President. -- Calvin Trillin
After my bad experience as a kite, I simply refused to go about as a glowing Sadie-headed chicken. That's fine for Carter, but I have standards. -- Rick Riordan
It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century. -- John McCain
If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there. -- Robert Glasper
Thanks for everything." "As you wish," the captain said. If axes could frown, I'm sure he would have. "Stay sharp," Carter told him. -- Rick Riordan

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