Veteran Quotes - Page 13

• [People] want to see our veterans taken care of, because they are not, they are being absolutely mistreated. There are many things they want to see. There are many points of anger in this country.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Our Veterans

  Source: www.economist.com

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• [My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Black, Grandfather, Combat

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, War, Stress

  Source: genius.com

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• As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Home

  Source: genius.com

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• One of my favorite episodes in West Wing was the homeless man that died and they found, in the overcoat he was wearing, a card of the speechwriter, Toby. He had given that coat to the Goodwill and this guy had ended up wearing it, died in it and Toby went to his funeral. He turned out to be a Korean war veteran. It was our first Christmas episode and that was a true story - a member of the staff had done exactly that. So many of these stories were far better than any fiction.

  Martin Sheen

  War, Men, Funeral

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, War, Coffee

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.121, Zola Books

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• Caught between the longing for love, and the struggle for the legal tender, where the sirens sing and the church bells ring, and the junk man pounds his fender. Where the veterans dream of the fight, fast asleep at the traffic light, and the children solemnly wait for the ice cream vendor.

  Jackson Browne

  Dream, Children, Struggle

  Song: The Pretender, Album: The Pretender, 1976

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• Memorial Day isn't just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that's a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It's a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Country, Memorial Day

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• About a veteran player thrown out trying to steal second: There was larceny in his heart, but his legs were honest.

  Arthur Baer

  Honesty, Heart, Player

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• At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

  Pete Hegseth

  Thank You, Memorial Day, Fashion

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• That was not the biggest battle that ever was, but for me it always typified one thing; the dash, the ingenuity, the readiness at the first opportunity that characterizes the American soldier.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Veterans Day, Opportunity, Soldier

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1959). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1955”, p.323, Best Books on

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• America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

  Jim Ramstad

  Veterans Day, Us Veterans, Our Veterans

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• Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

  Tony Hillerman

  House, Vietnam, Might

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• We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

  Nick Lampson

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Aggravation

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• I won’t stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won’t stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.

  Shelley Berkley

  Husband, Father, War

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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Sacrifice, Men

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• In a fire you have to be thoughtful, you have to have a certain kind of intuitive smarts that the veterans have. I'm not there yet, despite the Stanford degree.

  Caroline Paul

  Veterans Day, Smart, Thoughtful

  "Learning to Take the Heat / Author Caroline Paul faced blazes and prejudice as an S.F. firefighter" by Sylvia Rubin, www.sfgate.com. June 1, 1998.

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• I oppose U.S. military intervention in Iraq. I believe that we should not send troops or engage in air strikes-our nation's military involvement needs to be over. The United States has already spent billions of dollars in Iraq while our nation has endured a crumbling infrastructure, cuts to our social programs, a lack of investment in job training and creation, and sadly, a failure to take care of our veterans. Let's focus our resources at home. Over 4000 men and women have sacrificed their lives for Iraq. That is enough.

  Janice Hahn

  Jobs, Military, Believe

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• Donald Trump has broken his first promise [to release taxes]. Second he stood on this stage last week and when Hillary said you haven't been paying taxes, he said, that makes me smart. So it's smart not to pay for our military. It's smart not to pay for veterans, it's smart not to pay for teachers and I guess all of us who do pay for those things I guess we're stupid.

  Tim Kaine

  Teacher, Military, Smart

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Bob Ney

  Risk, Information, Lax

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• I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans.

  Karen Mills

  Opportunity, Thinking, Hands

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• Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Blessed, Actors, Lessons

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• I've been working professionally as an actor since I was 20. That's going to be 25 years soon. So, that's a veteran. That's a big-time veteran. I've had some great successes, and I've had some not-successes.

  Michael Imperioli

  Years, Actors, Great Success

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• I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Cells, Wind, Creative

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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