Jimmy Carter: “He brings a reputation as a tough, fair-minded protector of justice and the law.”

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

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

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.

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.