The President-Elect's Radio Address
12/05/2008
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
We cannot give the boy back the parents he lost or the woman back the future she had dreamed of.
A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again.
And what makes all of this so heartbreaking is that it was - in each and every case - entirely preventable.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is more interested in scoring points than solving problems.