"My name is Jimmy Carter, and I'm not running for president."

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“I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.”

“It is apparent that prisoners of war are among the most vulnerable of people. Not only are they completely under the control of their captors, but in a time of conflict, the hatred and brutality of the battlefield are very likely to be mirrored within military prison walls.”

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“Let us learn together and laugh together and work together and pray together, confident that in the end we will triumph together in the right.”

“I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference, … It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.”

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