George W. Bush: “Small businesses won more than 23% of all contract dollars last year, reaching a historical high.”

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

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.

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.