Jimmy Carter: “We prefer a minimum of secrecy in government and a maximum of privacy in our own lives.”

I say to you, quite frankly, that the time for racial discrimination is over.

There's only one chance and one life to count for something. And my faith tells me, or my faith demands, that I use whatever I have whenever I can, to make a difference in people's lives.

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.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.