George H.W. Bush: “We are not going to go back to those kind of standards.”

We live in troubled times with a military deployed around the world. We need a strong leader.

American officials must heed the lessons of the short-lived coup in 2002, when Bush Administration support for Chavez's ouster undermined America's standing in the region and damaged our credibility as a defender of democracy.

We know that free governments are the only way to ensure that the strong are just, and the weak are valued. And we know that when we lose sight of our ideals, it is not democracy that has failed. It is the failure of those charged with…

We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty.