George W. Bush: “Our veterans have borne the costs of America's wars and have stood watch over America's peace.”

Mr. Wyeth captured America in his paintings of his native Pennsylvania and Maine.

The American economy has consistently proven its strength and resilience in the face of shocks such as natural disasters, high energy prices, and the terrorist attacks of September 11.

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

You've showed the great strength of America through your work—and that is your good heart.