Carter

Famous quotes containing the word carter:

    It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?”
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

    This fellow mixes his metaphors the way a toper does his drinks and, I daresay, gets just as tipsy on them.
    —Angela Carter (1940–1992)

    Ours was a highly activist administration, with a lot of controversy involved ... but I’m not sure that it would be inconsistent with my own political nature to do it differently if I had it to do all over again.
    —Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)