Jimmy Carter: “I think it reestablishes our country as kind of a beacon light for something that's right and decent and proper and…”

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

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.

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.