Jimmy Carter: “In the absence of that leadership, there is no leadership, and the country drifts.”

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

I fear for our democracy.

All of us must learn to waste less energy.

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.