Jimmy Carter: “I believe a different treatment of the issue of diplomatic properties belonging to China would have been preferable.”

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.

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.