The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens.
Jimmy CarterWe cannot speak of human rights in other countries unless we are going to do our utmost to protect the rights of our own people here at home.
Jimmy CarterAmerica has about three times as many abortions as they have in Norway, or Sweden, or Nordic countries, and they don't have any laws at all about abortion, but they care for women and infant children, which is a major cause for abortion.
Jimmy CarterThere's no doubt that the Christian right has gone to bed with the more conservative elements of the Republican Party. And there's been a melding in their goals when it comes to the separation of church and state. I've always believed in the separation of church and state.
Jimmy Carter