Jimmy Carter: “We hope that the United States will be even more active in providing leadership in this field.”

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.

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

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.