Jimmy Carter: “I think it's important for me to mention just two or three things.”

I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.

The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home. And at every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free.

But when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the President of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.