Jimmy Carter: “This is just 3 months after I took office. It's long overdue.”

The Israeli government has rejected all the key issues that are included in the road map for peace.

I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.

There's only one chance and one life to count for something. And my faith tells me, or my faith demands, that I use whatever I have whenever I can, to make a difference in people's lives.

I recognize that Israel is a wonderful democracy with freedom of speech and equality of treatment under the law between Arab Israelis and Jewish Israelis.