The U.S.S. Maine was sent into Havana's harbor to protect American citizens and property and to intimidate the Cubans into behaving. Then it exploded on February 15. It killed more than 250 sailors.

Cuba rebelled against Spain in 1868 and fought for ten years.

On February 25, Theodore Roosevelt cabled naval commanders in the Pacific to prepare for military action against Spain. President McKinley ordered most of the cables undone, but he did leave Admiral George Dewey. Dewey was told to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines if the U.S. went to war with Spain.

Late in March, McKinley sent a list of demands to Spain, including; compensation for the Maine, an end to the reconcentration camps, a truce in Cuba, and Cuban independence. Spain accepted all but the last.

McKinley decided he could not stop the cries for war, even after Spain accepted all but the last of his demands. On April 11, 1898 he sent a war message to Congress. Not soon after that, Congress recognized Cuban independence and authorized force against Spain.

Carly Fiorina has campaigned hard in New Hampshire to earn support from voters.

It doesn't matter much where your company sits in its industry ecosystem, nor how vertically or horizontally integrated it is - what matters is its relative 'share of customer value' in the final product or solution, and its cost of producing that value.

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

You are bigger than your problem, stronger than your obstacles and higher than your ego.You can make a difference you are invincible.

Everybody's life has some mythical quality. You struggle against obstacles, you fight to get to a higher level and there are great loves.

American cooking is one of the unknown cuisines in America.

You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule.

People think I've got a problem with the press. Actually I have no problem with the press, but just like in football there are a handful who cause problems because they're disrespectful, they're lazy, and above all - and this is what really gets to me - they haven't worked hard to get there.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady so long as you dont try to knock her down with it.

It takes guts to praise someone's nobility, instead of show off or self-praise.

My great-grandfather played organ for silent movies. Talkies in, Gramps out.

No one is accountable anymore for anything.

I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

I don't like stereotypes - no kind of stereotypes.

Painful though parting be I bow to you as I see you off to distant clouds.

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.

I haven't personally in my real life had many people close to me die, but my characters have, and I've had to live that as though it's real. And it can take a really big emotional toll on someone.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

I love to sweat.

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.