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Jimmy Carter
stated on August 22, 2016 in interview with an AP reporter in Memphis:

Both the Democratic and Republican candidates for president in 2016 are "quite unpopular."

By Jim Tharpe • August 31, 2016
Jimmy Carter
stated on April 6, 2014 in interview while promoting book:

Atlanta is the No. 1 trading point for sexual slavery in America. Between 100 and 200 girls are sold into slavery in Atlanta every month.

By Nancy Badertscher • April 25, 2014
Jimmy Carter
stated on March 24, 2014 in Television interview :

Women in the U.S. get 23 percent less pay than men for the same exact work.

By Jim Tharpe • April 4, 2014
Jimmy Carter
stated on August 28, 2013 in a speech:

The number of African-American men in prison has increased fivefold since he left office.

By Eric Stirgus • September 6, 2013
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 28, 2013 in women's conference session:

Women in the United States are paid about 70 percent of what men earn for the same work.

By Janel Davis • July 9, 2013
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:

"(T)he United States government and its Constitution says that people can be put to death."

By Eric Stirgus • July 1, 2013
Jimmy Carter
stated on June 23, 2013 in an interview:

The Southern Baptist Convention voted 13 years ago "that women were inferior and had to be subservient to their husbands."

By Eric Stirgus • June 28, 2013
Jimmy Carter
stated on February 21, 2013 in an interview with CNN's Piers Morgan:

"When I ran against incumbent President Gerald Ford, you know how much money we raised? None."

By Louis Jacobson • February 26, 2013
Jimmy Carter
stated on September 20, 2010 in Former President Jimmy Carter, Sept. 20, during an NBC interview about his latest book :

Said that his batting average with Congress is higher than every other president since Dwight D. Eisenhower except Lyndon Johnson.

By Willoughby Mariano • October 5, 2010