Jimmy Carter: “I will nominate Louis Nunez to be Staff Director for the Commission on Civil Rights.”

I would prefer a much more rapid withdrawal myself and I don't know what the, you know, what the recommendation will be until I see the written report.

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.