Jimmy Carter: “Let there be no doubt in your mind about how seriously I take these pledges that have been made on my own word of honor…”

There's only one chance and one life to count for something. And my faith tells me, or my faith demands, that I use whatever I have whenever I can, to make a difference in people's lives.

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

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

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.