Jimmy Carter: “I congratulate Larry Comer and know that all of you join with me in wishing him well in the future.”

Base on what I just said, which I can't retract.

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.

I don't think the administration has ever picked up the ball, much less dropped it.

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