Jimmy Carter: “Today we confirm a new set of relations based on trust and mutual respect.”

Carter says the animosity directed at the president over health care, the big bailouts, is being driven because Mr. Obama is a black man.

But my hope is that there will be some clarification of what the United States is doing now and what they will be doing in the future.

Hospitals are just like prisons. They're easy to get in, but hard to get out. You need to help me get out of here so that I can go and serve the people in Tennessee.

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