Jimmy Carter: “I want to see the ties of our own country with other foreign countries--large and small, powerful and weak, very…”

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.

I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.

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

The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home. And at every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free.