Jimmy Carter: “I don't have any doubts that had we made a public issue of it, it would have complicated the issue unnecessarily.”

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.

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

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

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.