Political Quotes

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 people who abuse their power, whether be here or elsewhere.

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

Then Governor George W. Bush famously warned about that, quote, 'soft bigotry of low expectations.'

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.