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“Even as it failed, Carter's early welfare reform bill planted important seeds. For years Republicans stressed 'workfare,' requiring low-income people to work in exchange for welfare or food stamps. While Democrats believed that connecting welfare to work was demeaning. Carter's work incentives offered an innovative middle position, a way of using tax credits to make work pay. This third way proved to be a transformative idea in American social policy.”
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
“A President that... seemed so inordinately pure that people were waiting for a way to take the luster off. New York Times columnist William Safire lead the charge. Safire was a talented writer and clever analyst that had served Nixon as a publicist and speech writer for twenty-five years before turning to journalism. In column after column he set out to dilute the seriousness of Nixon's crimes by inflating one-day Washington flaps into 'scandals' that he artfully made smell vaguely of Watergate. Often by attaching a "-gate" suffix. Unlike many columnists who ranged widely over topics, Safire was like a dog with a bone when he ripped into a story that might damage Democrats.”
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“After leaving office, Carter often argued that the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, written by Canadian and French diplomats at the United Nations and popularized by Elanor Roosevelt, was akin to the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution in its importance. He believed that the values in it were descended from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew, where Jesus teaches people how they should treat one another.”
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
“And as he drove on, the rainclouds dragged down the sky after him, for, though he did not know it, Rob McKenna was a Rain God. All he knew was that his working days were miserable and he had a succession of lousy holidays. All the clouds knew was that they loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him, and to water him.”
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
― So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
“As they resumed discussions that evening, Carter was still angry. He told Begin he "won't beat around the bush." He would not have invited him to Camp David in the first place if he had known he wanted to stay in the occupied territories forever.
"What you want to do is make the West Bank part of Israel." Carter said coldly. "It looks like subterfuge." He wondered what had happened to the full autonomy Begin had pledged earlier to the Palestinians on the West Bank.
Begin's view was that autonomy was not sovereignty; and given the West Bank's very close proximity to Israel, his country needed to maintain ultimate control over all security questions. This would be the essential Israeli position for decades to come.”
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
"What you want to do is make the West Bank part of Israel." Carter said coldly. "It looks like subterfuge." He wondered what had happened to the full autonomy Begin had pledged earlier to the Palestinians on the West Bank.
Begin's view was that autonomy was not sovereignty; and given the West Bank's very close proximity to Israel, his country needed to maintain ultimate control over all security questions. This would be the essential Israeli position for decades to come.”
― His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life
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