Jimmy Carter: “We need to put our deep moral beliefs into action.”

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

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…

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

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.