Jimmy Carter: “The basic one is: Can we afford to neglect the needs of children? And the answer from everywhere came: No.”

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.

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.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.

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.