Jimmy Carter: “I want to do it without delay.”

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

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

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.

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