George W. Bush: “Africa's most valuable resource is not its oil or its diamonds, but it's the talent and the creativity of its people.”

We are grateful to the first responders and volunteers who are working to find the missing and comfort the grieving at Camp Mystic and along the Guadalupe.

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

That is the America I 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.