George W. Bush: “Today, we are striving for a world in which men and women can live in freedom and peace instead of in fear and chaos.”

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

Violence and vitriol must be purged from the public square. Members of other political parties are not our enemies; they are our fellow citizens.

I applaud your Governor's response to that tragedy.

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