George H.W. Bush: “We agreed here to tackle the next challenge -- furthering economic reform in the U.S.S.R., and seeking to integrate the…”

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…

A nation that can feed itself is a nation more secure.

One of our major problems is, we do not have enough immigrants. We are going to have to do something about our immigration policy.

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