Jimmy Carter: “Vice President Walter F. Mondale will make an official visit to the People's Republic of China in August 1979.”

An overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man.

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

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.