I loved reading this speech given in the Senate by Orren Hatch! I am posting just a small portion of it here. Click here to read the full article!
President Bush has been our leader, our chosen leader, for the past eight years. He has been a man of principle, conviction, and action. He has had to tackle challenges, both here and abroad, that are difficult even to describe, let alone comprehend. There have been many successes, and this has been a time of transition, adjustment, and change. President Bush, as is his way, takes a very practical view of his contribution to America . He says he will be remembered as someone who dealt with tough issues head on, helping our country protect itself, and who was unashamed about spreading certain fundamental values such as liberty. At home, he says, he trusts individual Americans to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. In his last State of the Union Address, President Bush said that our nation will prosper, our liberty will be secure, and our union will remain strong if we trust in the ability of free people to make decisions.
Protecting America from outside enemies and strengthening America from within. That is a legacy to be proud of, and I am so thankful for President Bush's leadership and courage and I pray for God's richest blessings for him, for First Lady Laura Bush, and their family in whatever lies ahead for them.
Let me close with a quote from President Theodore Roosevelt, whom I know President Bush admires. President Roosevelt said this in Paris in 1910 and it expresses my sentiments about President Bush as his time in office ends.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
Protecting America from outside enemies and strengthening America from within. That is a legacy to be proud of, and I am so thankful for President Bush's leadership and courage and I pray for God's richest blessings for him, for First Lady Laura Bush, and their family in whatever lies ahead for them.
Let me close with a quote from President Theodore Roosevelt, whom I know President Bush admires. President Roosevelt said this in Paris in 1910 and it expresses my sentiments about President Bush as his time in office ends.
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
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