Kirsten Gillibrand Quotes

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

It is also our responsibility to fulfill our promises to our veterans, to help those in need, and to support their strength and resilience. Ensuring that we take care of them and their families is a responsibility entrusted to all of us.

Military caregivers play an essential role in the recovery process of our veterans and are more than deserving of our support.

When active duty ends, we have an obligation to uphold our own pledge: a pledge to ensure that every veteran receives the care and benefits they deserve.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

Our government has made a number of promises to the men and women who served in our nation's armed forces. Sadly, these promises of health care, education and other benefits have existed more in rhetoric than in reality.

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

And under the existing circumstances, I understand there are situations where people indeed need care and need services, but I believe in America that the majority of those people are getting those services under situations and circumstances that are afforded to them by their health care providers and their state government.

Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.

America’s veterans deserve a strong VA, not an outsourcing voucher.

We can't ask the men and women of this country to go do things for us and then, when they get home, forget about them. It's not part of the deal.

As we look at the many problems we face in treating our veterans in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice, it's time we commit ourselves as a nation to applying the kind of resources and military precision necessary to finally make things right.

Congress has made great strides in addressing the disparities in care, recognition, and benefits that our women veterans receive, but there is more work to be done.

Our veterans, and especially our women veterans, need our support and the support of one another.

On the local, state and federal level, government is working alongside veteran's organizations and other stakeholders to provide services such as medical assistance, employment resources, and housing support to veterans and their dependents and survivors. But there are still gaps in services that must be rectified.

Congress has an obligation to ease the challenges our veterans face when they come home and return to civilian life.

Caring for our nation's veterans must be our top priority as we work to create a more efficient and effective healthcare system at the VA.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to return to the Veterans' Affairs Committee and continue working to ensure that every veteran in America gets the care, support and opportunities they've earned.

The first responsibility that we have to our veterans is to make sure those that need urgent care are getting care on time.

Caring for our veterans should be non-negotiable. And it definitely should not be affected by playing the same old Washington party politics game.

We have the greatest people on Earth in our military. We don't take care of our veterans.

As a veteran, I believe we have a responsibility to take care of all our men and women who have served - and I will fight to fix the crisis at the Veterans Administration caused by negligent leadership in Washington.

We need to protect people with pre-existing conditions, and we need to make sure that we have a safety net for people that can't take care of themselves.