George W. Bush: “This will help create more highly skilled jobs, inspire students and teachers in math and science, and ensure that we…”

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

The actions taken by my Administration in response to the financial crisis have laid the groundwork for a return to economic growth and job creation.

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

We are heartbroken by the loss of life and the agony so many are feeling.