Jimmy Carter: “I want to emphasize that the President's leadership is essential in reducing energy waste, and I believe the people will…”

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.

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

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.

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.