George W. Bush: “Our country owes you a debt of gratitude for your courage and resolve to serve the cause of peace.”

That is the America I know.

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

I'm really happy to be back in this great state.

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