President Joe Biden paid tribute to the late former president Jimmy Carter on Thursday at a state funeral in the US capital Washington DC. In his speech, Biden said that his friendship with Carter had taught him that strength of character was more valuable than titles or power.

Jimmy Carter, a U.S. president who served only one term but was widely admired for his humanitarian work after leaving the White House, was remembered during his state funeral on Thursday as a man who put honesty and kindness above partisan politics.

U.S. leaders on Tuesday paid tribute to former President Jimmy Carter -- who had the longest and most admired post-presidency in history -- as he laid in state at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday ahead of his funeral on Thursday.