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Jimmy Carter

39th President of the United States, 1977–1981; Governor of Georgia 1971–1975

United States · 1924–2024

Politics and public life

About

Served as President of the United States from 1977 to 1981 and as Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. Founded the Carter Center in 1982, which works on election monitoring, conflict mediation and disease eradication. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

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Recorded · On the billboard

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere, what would it say and why? Oslo City Hall, The Nobel Foundation, 10 December 2002 source ↗

Question If you could edit your past, what would you change? Failure & regret read 210 other answers →

I wish I sent one more helicopter to get the hostages and we would have rescued then and I - I would have been re-elected, but that may have - and that may have interfered with the foundation of the Carter Center. And if I had to choose between four more years and the Carter Center, I think I would choose the Carter Center.

Recorded News conference at the Carter Center, Atlanta, as transcribed by CNN, 20 August 2015 source ↗

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