George W. Bush: “I'm pleased to announce that I intend to nominate Mary Peters to be the next Secretary of Transportation.”

seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many.

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

We are heartbroken by the loss of life and the agony so many are feeling.

History will remember him as among the finest public servants of his generation – a patriot who brought integrity, high intelligence, and seriousness of purpose to every position.