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.

Giving people equal access to enjoying the benefits of America is the biggest problem that we're not making any progress in resolving.

Americans long thought that nature could take care of itself-or that if it did not, the consequences were someone else's problem. As we know now, that assumption was wrong; none of us is a stranger to environmental problems.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

I'm still, except for making overseas trips, I'm staying just about as busy as I ever did.

The Carter Center has a policy of doing what others do not want to do. We do not compete with the World Health Organization, the United Nations or the US government.