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.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

You just have to have a simple faith.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

The world is safer without Saddam [Hussein]. Certainly the people of Iraq are better without Saddam.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don't think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.