“The presidents varied in the degree to which they cited the founders. Some, like JFK, LBJ, [Richard] Nixon, and [Bill] Clinton, cited them somewhat frequently, in the range of 100 to 200 times, though, regrettably, not in a thematic or notably profound or even interesting way. Others, like Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, cited them rarely.” WayPresidentInterestingDegreesBillsProfoundClintonRangeFoundersJimmyCarterInteresting WaysThematicLbjGerald Ford Author:Paul Kengor
“[Gerald] Ford and [Jimmy] Carter, in fact, were huge disappointments to me. Think about this: They were the presidents around the time of America's historic bicentennial, and yet rarely quoted the founders.” ThinkingFactsAmericaPresidentHugeDisappointmentFoundersHistoricJimmyCarterGerald Ford Author:Paul Kengor
“Frankly, neither president [Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter] was an inspiring figure; so, maybe their lack of inspiration by the founders shouldn't surprise us.” InspirationPresidentFiguresSurpriseFoundersJimmyCarterGerald Ford Author:Paul Kengor
“When [Jimmy] Carter did quote them, he quoted them in what I believe were misapplications, such as arguing for the creation of a federal Department of Education. In one case, Carter quoted [Tomas] Jefferson's and [George] Washington's appreciation of education and then, in a leap, implied that they would be delighted that he was creating a giant federal bureaucracy for education.” BelieveWould BeI BelieveCasesCreationCreatingAppreciationArguingGiantsDepartmentLeapBureaucracyDelightedJimmyCarterImpliedTomas Jefferson Author:Paul Kengor
“I was disappointed in how [Bill] Clinton, like [Jimmy] Carter, used the founders to argue for huge expansions in federal power, clearly beyond what the founders could have ever conceived.” UsedHugeBillsClintonArguingDisappointedFoundersExpansionJimmyCarter Author:Paul Kengor
“I called the guys from Promise of the Real, whom I've been playing with, and they were all on the road. Right after I hung up the phone, I wrote another song and started writing another, and I'm going, "Hey, I can't wait. I should be doing this now!" My experience tells me that when it's there, it's there, and you can't make it wait. So I got Jimmy Keltner and Paul Bushnell, two good guys, and went in and did this record ["Peace Trail"].” ShouldWritingI CanTwoRealGuySongWaitingRecordsPromisePhonesHeyHungTrailsJimmyGood Guy Author:Neil Young
“As far as Ken Kwapis saying all those things, I think he just really wanted me in the movie so he probably told Warner Brothers, 'Don't worry, Jimmy Stewart? Gary Cooper? Who else do you like?' If they'd said they were huge Chris Farley fans, he's like, 'He can do that, too. He's a huge physical comedian.' But no, that's really nice to hear.” IfsThinkingSaidWantedCan DoWorryNiceFansBrotherHugeComedianJimmyReally NiceGaryJimmy StewartWarner Brothers Author:John Krasinski
“'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't speaking to my fellow performer, I was speaking to a camera, or a line next to the camera. It was difficult to do, because its not real acting. I had to pretend that I was 'seeing' Agnes Moorhead or Jimmy Stewart or Carroll Baker. I wasn't, I was acting to a drawn line. It took me personally two years to make the film, because my character starts at age 16 and I end up being 92 years old in the film. By the end of that production, I was ready for a long nap.” YearsLongTwoRealEndsHardCharacterAgeFilmThreeNextDifficultLinesActingSeeingReadyCamerasFellowsWestProductionsWideTechniqueTwo YearsPerformersJimmyNapsBakersJimmy Stewart Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Previously, I've worked with Bill Monahan on The Departed, he recently wrote American Desperado for us, and I just acted in a movie he directed called Mojave. So, yes, Jimmy, that goes without saying.” BillsJimmyDepartedMojave Author:Mark Wahlberg
“The first movie I can remember ever seeing was Hard Times with Charles Bronson and James Coburn. My dad also introduced me to the likes of Jimmy Cagney... John Garfield... Robert Ryan... Steve McQueen... James Caan... Those are my fondest memories.” FirstsI CanHardRememberMemoriesSeeingDadMy DadLikesHard TimesJimmyMcqueenGarfield Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy Carter is going to be there. If Donald Trump needs a lesson in John Lewis and what he has done beyond talk, he could ask his own vice president.Mike Pence went to Selma in 2010 with John Lewis, was there on the Pettus Bridge, talked about him as somebody who has the moral authority and courage that continues to inspire millions of Americans.” IfsNeedsMeanDoneAsksPresidentMoralMillionsInspireTrumpLessonsAuthorityClintonVicesFormerBridgesMikeJimmyCarterVice PresidentInaugurationMoral Authority Author:Jason Chaffetz
“We think the Republicans are the ones who started this fundamentalist religion claptrap, you know? It was Jimmy Carter. He's the one who talked about, you know, "I'm a born-again Christian. I pray all the time. I do this," etc.” ThinkingKnowsChristianBornPrayingRepublicanEtcI PrayJimmyCarterBorn AgainFundamentalistFundamentalist Religion Author:Robert Scheer
“We pick governors from states where governors don't do anything, like Jimmy Carter from Georgia, George W. Bush from Texas.” StatesPicksTexasGovernorsJimmyCarterGeorgia Author:Robert Scheer
“Barack Obama is telling the banking industry what it can and can't charge and what profit he will accept and what level of profit he won't accept. Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter came up with this scheme that resulted in the subprime mortgage crisis. They said it was unfair that poor and minority people didn't have houses, so we're basically gonna give 'em houses. How are we gonna do that? We're going to make the banks loan them money, knowing full well they can't pay it back.” PeopleGivingWellsSaidHousePoorLevelsPayAcceptingKnowingIndustryCrisisBillsClintonProfitBarackMinoritiesEmsSchemesUnfairThey SaidBankingLoanJimmyMortgageCarterMortgage Crisis Author:Rush Limbaugh
“If you go back and you look at the presidency over the course of history, presidents tend to do what they campaigned on. In the 20th century, presidents between Woodrow Wilson and Jimmy Carter accomplished 73 percent of the things that they said they would do as candidates. Part of that is because once they get into office, their credibility, their ability to do anything depends on doing the things that they said they would.” IfsLooksSaidCoursesPresidentAbilityCenturyDependsOfficePercentCandidatesAccomplishedThey SaidPresidency20th CenturyCredibilityJimmyCarterWilson Author:Evan Osnos
“My favorite decade of cinema would be kind of the '40s, yeah. I like things in the '30s, but you know, the sound recording in the '30s wasn't very good. But for some reason the movies in the '40s have the best personalities: Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, and all those people. For some reason, I seem to gravitate more toward the '40s, and I don't necessarily know why. I just love the people.” PeopleKnowsKindReasonSeemsWould BeSoundPersonalityYeahVery GoodMy FavoriteDecadesCinemaBe KindGenesJimmyGaryJimmy Stewart Author:Robert Osborne
“Reagan didn't want to wear his faith on his sleeve in a political way. Reagan thought that was egregious, and he was first turned off by it in the 1976 campaign when he thought Jimmy Carter was doing it. Reagan simply did not want ever to appear to be using faith for political purposes.” WayWantFirstsPoliticalPurposeCampaignsJimmySleevesCarterTurned Off Author:Paul Kengor
“It is interesting that liberals don't mind a strong faith at all. When it's their guy with a strong faith - whether it's Jimmy Carter or Woodrow Wilson or Harry Truman - that's just great. FDR inscribing Bibles and sending them to the troops. God bless him! But when a Republican president cites Jesus Christ as his favorite philosopher, as George W. Bush did on a famous occasion, then, well, the liberals cry out that [Tomás de] Torquemada is on the loose and warn gravely of the coming Inquisition.” MindWellsGuyJesusStrongPresidentChristInterestingCryRepublicanJesus ChristPhilosopherOccasionsBlessTomsTroopsJimmyCarterGod BlessWilsonInquisitionCitingTrumanStrong FaithHarry Truman Author:Paul Kengor
“[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.” YearsPresidentCareersSixDatingAdministrationJimmyCarter Author:Rachel Maddow
“[Barack Obama] says at one point, "[Jimmy] Carter, [Bill] Clinton and I suffer from," what he called, "the policy wonk's disease."” SufferingPolicyDiseaseBillsClintonBarackJimmyCarter Author:Ron Suskind
“Ernie Hayes, Jimmy Lewis, and either Belton Evans or Khalil Mahdi on drums [were in Sweet Basil]. All those guys really took care of me.” CareGuySweetJimmyBasilMahdi Author:Jon Gordon
“I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.” PlayGuyWishCompetitionInternationalMonkJimmySaxophone Author:Jon Gordon
“I use Jimmy Galanos gowns for real special occasions and things - television, special occasions where I know I'm being filmed. But I never really wear his gowns on stage. My stage gowns are more costumey. There's different levels of things that I wear.I would never wear my stage gowns to a party.” KnowsDifferentRealUseLevelsPartySpecialStageTelevisionOccasionsJimmyGownsDifferent LevelsSpecial Occasion Author:Diana Ross
“I'd seen the Led Zeppelin reunion and I've never been such a huge Led Zeppelin fan as much as the Doors or Beatles. I went and saw the reunion and watching them play "Stairway to Heaven," it was very breathtaking for one reason mostly. I can imagine these two guys looking at each other, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page. Not to compare us to Led Zeppelin, but I did miss the fact that I could look over at the guy, Twiggy Ramirez, that wrote "The Beautiful People" and "Dope Show." Emotionally, it's taken a long time to repair that.” PeopleLooksLongI CanTwoReasonPlayFactsShowsBeautifulGuyHeavenTakenSawsImagineDoorsFansMissingHugePagesLong TimePlantCompareJimmyDopeReunionBeautiful PeopleZeppelinsBreathtakingTwo GuysStairwaysStairway To Heaven Author:Marilyn Manson
“Soviet foreign ministers would come in to see the president all the time, routinely. Jimmy Carter stopped that after the invasion of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan resumed it in 1984, I think. And so the fact of a meeting like that I think is not that big a deal.” ThinkingPresidentMeetingsAfghanistanSovietJimmy Author:Robert M. Gates
“The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border of Afghanistan, I wrote to President Jimmy Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.” GivingWarOpportunityPresidentAfghanistanVietnam WarJimmyUssr Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“The polling data in 1980 had Jimmy Carter nine points, winning by nine points, four or five days out. I will never forget that election night. In 1980 it was so bad for the Democrats - they got skunked so bad - Jimmy Carter conceded before 10 p.m. Eastern time.” NightWinningForgetElectionDemocratNever ForgetEasternJimmyConceded Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Jimmy Carter, of course, was beloved. Peanut farmer. Came out of nowhere, governor of Georgia. Normally Democrats hate Southern accents, 'cause Southern accents equals Deliverance, equals hayseed, equals idiot. But if it's one of them... But you had to look the other way with Jimmy Carter and then here came Bill Clinton later. So depending on where the Southern accent's from, they'll make an exception and not be prejudicial about it. But for the most part, a Southern accent may as well be a slave owner as far as Democrats are concerned; they want no part of it.” HateConcernedSlaveClintonDemocratIdiotBelovedExceptionFarmersSouthernJimmyPeanutsDeliveranceBe A Slave Author:Rush Limbaugh
“The Democrats loved Jimmy Carter, even though - and, by the way, take a look at some economic circumstances. In 1980, the economy of this country was in the tank after four years of Jimmy Carter. I mean, it was desperately bad. Unemployment was sky-high. Carter had seen us through a couple of near-depression recessions, all of this coming out of Watergate, which happened in 1972.” MeanCountryEconomyEconomicCoupleCircumstancesDemocratJimmy Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Wikipedia is an amazing construct. It's a commons that works. I don't know how Jimmy Wales came up with it. I'm sure all of us would have said, "This is the stupidest thing we've ever heard of. That'll never work in a million years."” JimmyStupidest Author:Jeremy Rifkin
“When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.” MovingJimmy Author:Yellowman
“I do believe that the Barack Obama administration has reached a new low by using the instruments of the state against its political adversaries. Obama does not see people who disagree with him as well-meaning opponents but rather as enemies. That's not something that Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton did as President. Probably Obama's direct descendant in this line is Richard Nixon. And Obama seems to have carried Nixonian tactics to a new low. So, we've turned a corner in American politics that doesn't bode well for our future.” PeopleBelievePoliticalPresidentEnemyDirectClintonBarackOur FutureDisagreeAdversariesJimmy Author:Dinesh D'Souza
“Jimmy Carter is not loved in Israel, and yet no American president gave them a greater gift than Jimmy Carter gave them with peace with Egypt, and the opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians.” OpportunityPresidentPalestinianJimmyMaking PeaceAmerican President Author:Lawrence Wright
“Look at what Jimmy Carter did. Look at the risks he took for a country that wasn't his. Israel has benefited unbelievably from that. To fail to give him credit seems unfair.” GivingCountryFailingRiskUnfairJimmy Author:Lawrence Wright
“I think we give Jimmy Carter too much credit to think he knew what was going to happen when he used the word "apartheid." It's provocative, but it was like a nuclear bomb in Israel. And yet that word is used all the time in the Israeli press. There's a double standard there. He probably picked it up in Israel, as it's commonly discussed. I'd be a little surprised if he understood how it was going to be used against him. He doesn't have a highly developed emotional detector. As a politician, that was a weakness.” ThinkingGivingEmotionalPoliticianWeaknessIsraeliJimmyProvocativeApartheidDouble StandardNuclear Bomb Author:Lawrence Wright
“I'm still watching all those old-timers really going along, and I'm enjoying it so much, not just looking at the pictures, but looking at the acting. Paul Muni. Beautiful character. Edward G. Robinson. Jimmy Cagney. All those old boys. You don't find those characters anymore.” CharacterBeautifulEnjoyActingBoysJimmy Author:Ernest Borgnine
“Someone wrote in the New York Times recently that if Donald Trump was allowed to go through with his plans, he'd become one of history's major human rights violators and ethnic cleansers, just below the Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin league. But people don't care. Trump goes on Jimmy Fallon's show and that spineless puff of a talk show host praises Trump for being such an "off the cuff" talker and providing "fresh air." Fresh air! What's fresh about racism? it comes out of the darkest dankest rottenest human cellar!” PeopleCareRacismPraiseHuman RightsLeagueHostJimmy Author:Francisco Goldman
“Ever since John Kennedy, Democrats have had a weakness for dashing younger men like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and, I suppose, Jimmy Carter. They balance their tickets with senior statesmen - Lyndon Johnson, Joe Biden, Walter Mondale. (Al Gore was young but played ancient).” MenYoungBalanceWeaknessBillsClintonDemocratAncientBarackAlsTicketsSeniorJohnsonGoreJimmyStatesmenCarterBidenDashingJohn KennedyWalter Mondale Author:Joe Klein
“If you're a "good" teacher, somebody who is responsible or careful, teaching takes time. Teaching is performative. Students nowadays evaluate you and there's a lot made in these evaluations about how you perform. Maybe you don't have the greatest delivery in the world. But you know a lot, have a lot to offer. So that's pretty unsettling. We've become so image-based and performance-based as a society. You have to be ready to appear on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" at any moment.” WorldMomentsTeacherTeachingStudentsResponsibleCarefulTake TimeJimmyDeliveryGood Teacher Author:Lynne Tillman
“Rick Nielsen, Angus Young. Huge Eddie Van Halen fan when I was younger. Jimmy Page is an enormous one who impacts me. When you grow up with classic rock like that and then you get into punk rock, you defy your roots and where you came from. I never really went through that. Even when I started listening to the Clash or the Sex Pistols, I still always listened to Led Zeppelin or Kiss.” Growing UpListeningKissingClassicPunkJimmyClashPunk RockVan Halen Author:Tad Kubler
“I guess my guitar heroes shifted from people like Jimmy Page and Jimi Hendrix to people like Johnny Marr or John Squire.” PeopleHeroJimmyHendrix Author:Tad Kubler
“Reagan won because he was real. He believed in America. He told people he was gonna make it great again coming out of a disastrous four years of Jimmy Carter and Watergate before that.” PeopleYearsRealAmericaFourComing OutFour YearsJimmyCarterWatergate Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.” DoeHollywoodMuseumsStatuesJimmyJimmy Stewart Author:Dean Martin
“Young Jimmy Dean fell off the world as suddenly as he had come.” WorldYoungJimmyDean Book:The Quality of Mercy Source: The Quality of Mercy
“It's possible that the 2012 general-election race will be the least overtly religious one since 1972, the last campaign before Roe v. Wade and the rise of Jimmy Carter brought evangelicalism into the political mainstream. That's because faith remains a complicated issue for Obama, who is still wrongly thought to be a Muslim in some quarters.” StillsLastsPoliticalReligiousRaceIssuesElectionRemainsComplicatedCampaignsQuartersMainstreamJimmyCarterWadeRoe V WadeGeneral Elections Author:Jon Meacham
“I couldn't relate to kid stuff. 'Jimmy doesn't like me!' Who cares? I was worried we didn't have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.” CareKidsStuffConcernLike MeRelateWorriedGasWho CaresJimmyGas Money Author:Leighton Meester
“Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere threat of a filibuster is enough to stop a vote; senators are rarely asked to pull all-nighters like Jimmy Stewart in 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.'” TwoEnoughTodayVoteThreatMereCurrentsDeterminedJust OneSenateSenatorsJimmyJimmy StewartFilibusterAll Nighters Author:Evan Bayh
“And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.” StuffWestGuitarJimmy Author:Willie Nelson
“My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad.” ThinkingFatherDadMy DadConfusedDispositionJimmyJimmy StewartHappy Disposition Author:Jane Pauley
“I see friends who are in different genres of music, and they say they're so burnt playing the same stuff every night. That's why you see a country act wanting to go out and play an old classic rock song. But what cracks me up is that they all want to be Jimmy Buffett. I can't figure that out.” WantI CanDifferentCountryPlayNightSongStuffRocksFiguresGenreClassicCracksEvery NightJimmyDifferent GenresBuffettGenres Of MusicClassic RockRock SongOld RockDifferent Genres Of Music Author:Kid Rock