George H.W. Bush: “Today we hear the creaking and crumbling of that Castro dictatorship.”

We are here today, together, to strengthen and reform U.N. peacekeeping because our common security demands it.

the detention facility had become a propaganda tool for our enemies and a distraction for our allies.

I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy that we need an independent media to hold people like me to account. I mean, power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the media to call to account…

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