CARTER, Jimmy
James Earl Carter, Jimmy Carter
Born: 1 October 1924
Birthplace: Plains, Georgia
39th President of the United States, Governor of Georgia, humanitarian & philanthropist; 2002 Nobel Peace Prize recipient
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CARTER, Jimmy
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.” ~Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States “Our Nation’s Past and Future” (15 July 1976) Presidential candidacy acceptance speech, Democratic National Convention, Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; transcript online via The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum, ‘Acceptance Speech,' www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov Context Extended excerpt [Presidential candidate nomination acceptance speech]: “It is time for our government leaders to respect the law no less than the humblest citizen, so that we can end once and for all a double standard of justice. A
CitationContextSource ISBNCitation “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom.” ~Lee Iacocca, American automotive executive Talking Straight (1988) with Sonny Kleinfeld, New York, NY: Bantam Books, July 1989 edition, p. 236 Context Extended excerpt: [From a book of autobiographical essays & thoughts on various topics. Quoted excerpt appears in chapter XIII: “The School Crisis”] “A country’s competitiveness starts not on the factory floor or in the engineering lab. It starts in the classroom. We’ve got to get cracking on education – at all levels – or we’ll get run over by the Far East.” (p. 232) Source ISBN
CitationContextSource LinkCitation “Awards become corroded, but friends gather no dust.” ~Jesse Owens, American athlete & orator Address to students & staff of East High School, Phoenix, Arizona, cited in “Former Olympic Star Prescribes Education” (April 1973) article by Isabel Braunstein, Arizona Republic, 14 April 1973, p. 63, column 5 [p. 64 .pdf file]; online via Newspapers.com [subscription service] www.newspapers.com Context Extended excerpt [Newspaper article, describing Owens’ speech to high school students]: “He approves athletics, he said, because they provide other young people, as they provided him, with something to compete and excel in. But he advised: “Athletic awards become tarnished and diplomas fade with passing years. Gold turns green and the ink grays until
