George W. Bush: “I can't think of a country more like— a place more like Texas than Australia.”

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

I applaud your Governor's response to that tragedy.

That is the America I know.

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.