Jimmy Carter: “We hope that banks will act promptly to pass on to their loan customers the benefits of the reduction in costs of funds…”

We look on human rights as an ability to live in peace. And to believe that your future will be better than your past might be.

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.

Our great nation now teeters on the brink of a widening abyss. Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.

Well, the agreement is not supposed to help the Cuban dictators and it doesn't. But the agreement does it helps both the Cuban people and the American people in the long-term.