George W. Bush: “The American people need to know that the Pentagon is forward thinking.”

Is it in our national interests that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is, and so do you.

Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know.

Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square. Members of other political parties are not our enemies; they are our fellow citizens.

History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation – a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position.