Veteran Welfare Quotes

Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.

Our government is asking people to continue fighting wars for us but we don't always treat them as well as we do when they're active duty.

The responsibility for keeping our commitments to veterans falls on the federal government.

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.

Let's make sure that we have health care benefits that have been promised to our veterans delivered to them in the communities that they are living in.

Our country has made a promise to our veterans: if you serve your country, then 'we've got your six.' We will have your back for life. I will always fight for the more than 250,000 veterans here in Arkansas.

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.

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

At the same time, we're going to take care of our military and we're going to take care of our great, great, great veterans.

I'm trying to raise awareness for veterans.

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.

It is our responsibility as Americans to provide for the families of those who have died to defend our nation. Raising the military death benefit is not a Democrat or Republican issue - it is an American issue.

The Veterans Administration is a scandal. It's corrupt, and what's going on is a disgrace. And, believe me, if I win, if I become president, that will end. The veterans will be treated properly.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation.

A homeless veteran should not have to stand at a freeway exit with a cardboard sign. That's not okay.

Our disabled veterans earned their benefits by serving our great nation, and we must protect them and their families, especially during financial hardship.

We need to take care of our veterans. If I'm going to send you away and break you, I'm going to fix you when you come home.

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.

Veterans often need medical and psychological assistance, and often, for them, it is hard to ask for help, but we want them to know they are not alone.

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

If you are not prepared top take care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country - who came back wounded in body, wounded in spirit - if you're not prepared to help those people, then don't send them to war in the first place.

We are all dishonored when a veteran sleeps on the same streets that he or she has defended. We are all dishonored when a veteran's family has to live in a shelter while he or she is out fighting for us. WE NEED TO FIX THAT!

We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

Taking care of our veterans is one of my top priorities, and I am especially concerned on behalf of our women veterans.