George W. Bush: “I'm on my way overseas this evening.”

For eight years, it has been my honor to serve as your President. The first decade of this new century has been a period of consequence—a time set apart.

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

This is not mere nostalgia, it is the truest version of ourselves.

The battles waged by our troops are part of a broader struggle between two dramatically different systems.