Jimmy Carter: “This bill, the Agricultural Credit Assistance Act of 1978, meets that other need.”

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.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

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