Jimmy Carter: “I will nominate Charles B. Curtis and Georgiana Sheldon to be members of the Federal Power Commission.”

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

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.

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.