Jimmy Carter: “I directed the Secretary of the Treasury to undertake the appropriate negotiations.”

Base on what I just said, which I can't retract.

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.

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

All of us must learn to waste less energy.