Jimmy Carter: “I hope that this Government action and I expect this Government action will take root in the private sector.”

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.

Well, the agreement is not supposed to help the Cuban dictators and it doesn't. But the agreement does it helps both the Cuban people and the American people in the long-term.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.