Jimmy Carter: “Our friendship has at times been marred by mistakes, and even by abuses of power.”

Hospitals are just like prisons. They're easy to get in, but hard to get out. You need to help me get out of here so that I can go and serve the people in Tennessee.

I don't agree with that at all.

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.