George W. Bush: “Emil M. Skodon, of Illinois, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be…”

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

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

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

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.