George W. Bush: “Israel is exercising its right to defend itself.”

Today, we remember your loss, we share your sorrow and we honor the men and women that you have loved so long and so well.

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.

Being your President was a high privilege, and the honor of a lifetime.