George W. Bush: “I commend the millions of Afghan men and women who voted in the first democratic election in their Nation's history.”

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.

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

Those who have lost their precious children are facing a grief no parents should ever know.