Bush 41, in his speech on September 11, 1990.
(No, I didn't mistype the month and day. That's when it really occurred, 11 years became the day became infamous).
There are too many folks in the back realms of power that think they can get snarky with God. Oh they know in the back of their hearts he exists, but they won't accept the Christian version of God nor will they accept any of his loving restraints on their avarice. Psalm 2 describes “the kings of the world rising up, taking council together “against the Lord and his Annointed” saying “let us break their bonds asunder let us cast away their yokes from us”. So, these evil little ticks, they do know Who it it is they are trying to defy and are trying to get the rest of the world to join with them. Paul said the knowledge and glory of God is made evident thru-out creation and that none of us is without excuse for our sins before God. Satan has blinded these men and women of the media, politics, and the banking systems but peal back the layers and you'll find little would be God tyrants in each of them, shaking their fists at God. They do know after a certain sense who it is they are defying, but they delude themselves by thinking they can exist at a tangential angle to God, maybe deluding themselves into thinking they are actually doing Good by doing or promoting evil.