Jimmy Carter: “Hospitals are just like prisons. They're easy to get in, but hard to get out. You need to help me get out of here so…”

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

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.