George W. Bush: “I urge Senators of both parties to rise above the bitterness of the past, to provide a fair hearing and a prompt vote to…”

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

That is the America I know.

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

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