Jimmy Carter: “I am very proud to stand before you as Commander in Chief.”

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.

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

I and about 25 others saw something in the air that changed colors and was round.

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.