George W. Bush: “All of them are essential to America's security as we wage the war on terror.”

If any voters came hoping for a kind word and a hug, they’d have to settle for the kind word.

You've showed the great strength of America through your work—and that is your good heart.

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

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.