George W. Bush: “I will work to ensure that every American community continues to have a water supply that is clean and is safe.”

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.

To you and the honored dead, our country is forever grateful.

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

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.