Jimmy Carter: “I think that we have done a great deal to help the elderly and those who are unemployed and those who have been…”

The title was very carefully chosen by me. And the first word is the most important. It's Palestine. The land of the Palestinians. It doesn't refer to Israel at all.

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.

All of us owe them our gratitude and respect.