George W. Bush: “Medicare would pay for somebody's heart surgery, which might cost up to $100,000.”

Being your President was a high privilege, and the honor of a lifetime.

Is it in our interest that 25 million people who would have died now live? I think it is. On behalf of a grateful nation, thank you for your hard work and God bless you.

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

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