George H.W. Bush: “You showed exactly where we are going and why.”

I want to thank Senator Cardin for his tremendous leadership, for years, on human rights issues.

it's time to put it aside. But, you know, from team Bush, it's a bitter pill to swallow, but you know what? You get back up and you help the man that won, and you make sure that we stop Hillary Clinton.

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.

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.