George W. Bush: “With your help, I will do so for the next 4 years.”

seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many.

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

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.