Jimmy Carter: “I will nominate Marjorie Fine Knowles, of Tuscaloosa, Ala., to be Inspector General of the Department of Labor.”

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

But inside Palestine, outside of Israel, where the Israelis occupying forces are there, the persecution and deprivation of the Palestinians is horrendous.

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…

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.