George H.W. Bush: “No effort to address climate change can be successful without the participation of the developing countries.”

George W. Bush also focused on the inevitability of history saying 'trade freely with China and time is on our side.'

I think you are engaging in the soft bigotry of low expectations.

Strength is not empty rhetoric. It's not bluster. And in my experience, the strongest person usually isn't the loudest one in the room.

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