Veteran Quotes - Page 3

• The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

  Spencer Bachus

  War, Years, America

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• Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

  Mara Liasson

  Campaigns, Voters, Republican

  "Obama, Romney Pull Campaign Ads On Sept. 11". "All Things Considered" with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. September 11, 2012.

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• I can't imagine anybody disagrees with President Trump when he says, if we don't take care of our veterans, who are we really as a nation?

  Kellyanne Conway

  Our Veterans, President, Care

  "CNN's Jake Tapper On McCarthyism, Trump And The 'Jar Jar Binks Principle'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, nepr.net. April 26, 2018.

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• I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

  Jill Scott

  Because I Can, Shows, Show Business

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Patty Murray

  Grateful, Caring, Our Veterans

  "Bush: Troops 'securing' U.S. ideals", www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.

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• Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

  Corrine Brown

  Administration, Sticks, Ends

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• One thing I want to clarify - that every service member, veteran, wants us to remember - is that the vast majority of people returning from service come back completely healthy. But when we do come across someone who is struggling. We have to develop a culture of open arms and acceptance so that they feel comfortable saying, "I'm a veteran. And by the way, I need little help." This is something we need to do in this country around mental health as a whole - destigmatizing mental health.

  Michelle Obama

  Country, Struggle, Acceptance

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

  Chris Kyle

  Hero, Men, People

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• It's quite a traumatic thing for a lot of our veterans that come back... You're in a war zone, you're dodging IED's and bullets one day and a couple days later you're back in society again with a bunch of people that have no idea of what you've been through.

  Charlie Daniels

  Couple, War, Ideas

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• The average 20-year-old serving us in Iraq knows more about their country's national security than the average 20-year political veteran serving in the Congress today.

  Fred Thompson

  Country, Average, Years

  "GOP's Thompson shows his conservatism". Miami Herald, September 14, 2007.

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• As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

  Tulsi Gabbard

  War, Cost, Combat

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• First, separate ground, sea and air warfare is gone forever. This lesson we learned in World War II. I lived that lesson in Europe. Others lived it in the Pacific. Millions of American veterans learned it well.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Air, American Veterans

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• No administration in recent times has been able to tackle the needs of our veterans. On that, I do want to see Donald Trump successful. But in terms of his travel ban and immigration policy, I don't want to see him successful.

  Nina Turner

  Successful, Our Veterans, Immigration

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

  Patty Murray

  Grateful, Caring, Our Veterans

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• I'm a Veteran. I was in the Navy, in the submarine corps. I come from a military family. Both of my grandparents were in World War II and retired as officers. One fought in the Pacific and one fought in Europe. The whole family was in the war. I grew up exposed to it and hearing the stories, but the stories I heard weren't kind of the whole "Rah, rah, rah! We saved the world!" They were about the personal price and the emotional price.

  David Ayer

  War, Military, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• I love the veterans. And I'll take care of them. And they know that I'll take care of them. And that's going to be my job. But, also, I have the ability, and the knowledge, and the background to make the right judgments, to keep America safe and secure.

  John McCain

  Care, Judgment, Ability

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• War is awful. Nothing, not the valor with which it is fought nor the nobility of the cause it serves, can glorify war. War is wretched beyond description and only a fool or a fraud could sentimentalize its cruel reality. Whatever is won in war, it is loss the veteran remembers.

  John McCain

  War, Loss, Reality

  "Mark Shields: A much different war for a changed nation", www.cnn.com. September 16, 2002.

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• The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

  Henry Waxman

  Respect, Military, Pay

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• That's what makes America great; the fabric and the core of our beliefs and our being is we wrap ourselves around diversity. We say that the American flag represents our right to be free in every aspect of what that is, and every veteran who fought, fought for that freedom. So what we have to do is realize it's not a choice between the country and racial justice; it's about what we believe in at the core of our being, and that's that we are free.

  Jennifer Welter

  Country, Believe, Justice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• As any war veteran will tell you, there is a vast difference between preparing for battle and actually facing battle for the first time.

  Kevin Hearne

  War, Differences, Battle

  Kevin Hearne (2012). “Tricked: The Iron Druid Chronicles, Book Four”, p.80, Del Rey

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• When it comes to standing up for veterans, we cannot be the Republicans and Democrats, we have to be the red, white, and blue party.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Party, Blue, White

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• It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

  Mitt Romney

  Country, Gratitude, War

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• Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

  Joe Walsh

  Hero

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