Jimmy Carter: “At best, it prolongs the period of uncertainty for each regulation by several months.”

I fear for our democracy.

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.

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.

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