Jimmy Carter: “I believe that Presidents Nixon and Ford both have perhaps deliberately severed the normal relationships with Congress.”

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

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

I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.

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