Jimmy Carter: “I believe it's been very good for me—and I believe for the country—to have had this time of careful consideration.”

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

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.

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.

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