Jimmy Carter Quotes

What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.

I feel great identification with the developing world.

I want the voice of developing countries to be stronger.

Barack Obama has talked a lot about changing the way America relates to the world, and few areas are as ripe for reform as our policies on foreign aid.

I spent half my life on economic relations and building relationships with allies and friends; I spent the other half of it on warfare and the Third World. Some people tell me that the mixture of economic analysis and welfare is ideal training for Wall Street.

America needs to rethink how we distribute our foreign aid around the world.

The rich world likes and wishes to believe that someone, somewhere, is doing something for the Third World. For this reason, it does not inquire too closely into the motives or practices of anyone who fulfills, however vicariously, this mandate.

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

An effective U.S. policy toward Sudan - one capable of changing the situation in the south and affecting the lives of its people - will require top-level attention and a great deal of energy. It should have three elements: aid, diplomacy, and financial disclosure.

Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent.

We've worked with President Yeltsin. He is the President of the country. He's been a reformer. We've been able to accomplish a number of things together.

What is the Obama Doctrine? It seems to be one of disengagement, to try to ignore the hot, religious, dry, poor countries from Algeria to Pakistan.

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues.

My dad's main client was the World Bank, and he spent most of his time traveling to Third World countries. His particular interest lay in the eradication of poverty through development and business.

You know, Arabs are critical of United States foreign policy, but they also associate the U.S. with democratic principles and opportunity.

When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's what brings leaders in Turkey to attack Israel the way they do. When we see a lack of leadership coming from the White House, that's why we see the leader of Iran... continuing to build the nuclear reactors.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

Secretary Clinton has dramatically changed the face of U.S. foreign policy globally for the good. But I wish she had been unleashed more by the White House.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.

President Obama, like every other leader on Earth, is still going to be looking out for national and economic interests. States don't cease to be states overnight just because they get a great visionary as their new president.

The First World became a popular phrase in about the 1970s and '80s. The World Bank then began categorizing countries in different categories, advanced to the least developed.