Jimmy Carter: “I urge early congressional action on the proposal.”

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

But, when a radical fringe element of demonstrators and others begin to attack the president of the United States of America as an animal, or as a reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, or when they wave signs in the air that said we should have…

I would prefer a much more rapid withdrawal myself and I don't know what the, you know, what the recommendation will be until I see the written report.

Base on what I just said, which I can't retract.