George W. Bush: “We expect that it will be a prime ministership that has real authority.”

For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart.

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.

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.

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