Jimmy Carter: “I am directing that we discontinue plans for production of this weapons system.”

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.

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.

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