George W. Bush: “We will stay in Iraq as long as we are needed and not a day longer.”

It has been the privilege of a lifetime to serve as your President.

What America does for itself has made it strong--but what America does for others has made it great.

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.

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.