George W. Bush: “Part of the reason I've come down is to tell the people here in the gulf coast that we still think about them in…”

We learned that bravery is more common than we imagined, emerging with sudden splendor in the face of death.

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

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.