"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom."
― Jimmy Carter
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Government
― Jimmy Carter
More From Jimmy Carter
- "I can’t really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government."
- "I’ve just finished my 20th book this past year and I’m working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I’ll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I’m an artist too."
- "I had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War."
More In Government
- "People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed."― Arlen Specter
- "Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don’t trust the third one – the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization."― Shimon Peres
- "Just in general, any government throughout history hasn’t really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn’t control them as easily."― Maynard James Keenan