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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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When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land. – Jimmy Carter

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Peace
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Jimmy Carter
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I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future. – Jimmy Carter

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Future
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Jimmy Carter
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We just put General Motors in the hands of people who cant even run our own government. – Glenn Beck

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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too. – Richard M. Nixon

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Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administrations first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government. – Eliot Spitzer

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From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence. – Tony Campolo

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Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

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I can still smell the green of the grass crushed beneath me. Feel the damp of the dew on my elbows. Hear the birdsong. – Kristina Turner, The Self-Healing Cookbook, 2002, originally published 1987

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There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea. – P. W. Bridgman

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God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with. – Henry Ward Beecher

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