George H.W. Bush: “I'm not going to go to the convention. I'm not going to appear to be celebrating or cheering if the Gulf Coast is going…”

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

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…

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.

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