Vets Quotes - Page 2

• By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Jobs, Couple, Hard Work

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• Philadelphia fans would boo funerals, an Easter egg hunt, a parade of armless war vets and the Liberty Bell.

  Bo Belinsky

  Easter, War, Eggs

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• We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is sometimes something that's quite hard to do, when you're talking about giant databases of information - release it to the public and then defend ourselves against the inevitable legal and political attacks.

  Julian Assange

  Talking, Organization, Political

  "Why the world needs WikiLeaks". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com. July 2010.

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• People like Donald Trump, who paid zero in taxes, zero for our vets, zero for our military, zero for health and education, that is wrong.

  Hillary Clinton

  Zero, Military, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• We take care of illegal immigrants, people that come into the country illegally, better than we take care of our vets. That can't happen.

  Donald Trump

  Country, People, Care

  The third presidential debate between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Donald J. Trump, www.nytimes.com. October 20, 2016.

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• [The Yellow Birds] is based on a novel written by Kevin Powers, who is an Iraq War vet. I play a soldier who promises my friend's mother I'm going to keep him alive. But when we go overseas to Iraq, he gets killed. It's about what happened to him, my reckoning and dealing with that as I return home from the war.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Mother, War, Home

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Hillary Clinton's done nothing, all she's done is tell everybody that the vets are in good shape. They're fine. And they're not fine. People are waiting in line for seven days to see a doctor.

  Donald Trump

  Doctors, Waiting In Line, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Donald Trump needs to stay focused and remember the promises to you, the American people. You know the promises, repeal and replace Obamacare, identify radical Islam, lower taxes, repatriate corporate profits, build the border wall, appoint originalists to the Supreme Court, fix inner cities, energy independence, drain the swamp, send education back to the states, you know, say radical Islam, vet refugees, all of these important issues, free trade.

  Sean Hannity

  Wall, Issues, Cities

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• I think that you're smarter than we were, but we had two things: one is, in our naïveté we believed we could change the world. And number two, we believed that another world was possible. And once that belief took hold of some critical mass, a tiny minority nonetheless, but a critical mass of people, then the world did change.

  Bill Ayers

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• Some of the core principles of President Trump are very similar to those of Ronald Reagan. When you look at peace through strength and building up the military, I mean, how many times have you heard President Trump say, "I'm going to build up the military; I'm going to take care of the vets; I'm going to make sure that we don't have a Navy that's decimated, and planes that are nowhere to be found." Peace through strength, deregulation. You think about the economy, the economic boom that was created.

  Reince Priebus

  Military, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There is a language barrier between vets and the civilian population. They speak different languages.

  George W. Bush

  Population, Different, Language Barriers

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• Nobody quite knows the truth about cats purring, but it does seem to be also a self-healing thing for them, which is why, when you take your cat to the vet and it's frightened, it will purr.

  Margaret Atwood

  Healing, Cat, Self

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• I'm about jobs. I'm about the fence. I'm about borders. I'm about a lot of things. I'm about our vets. I'm about strong military. You know, whether you break it down into men or women or anybody else, I mean, I think people want to hear that and I'm much better at it than Hillary Clinton is.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Jobs, Military

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I don't want to live in a world where I just kind of play on my naïveté - well if I don't know it, then it doesn't exist.

  Charlize Theron

  Play, World, Want

  Source: wwd.com

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• If [Donald Trump] is paid zero [taxes], that means zero for troops, zero for vets, zero for schools or health.

  Hillary Clinton

  Zero, Mean, School

  Source: time.com

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• Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

  Dick Durbin

  Giving, Quality, Flags

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• I'm very, very so-called conservative on the military. I want a very, very strong military. I want to build up - you know, our military is totally depleted. We're going to care of our vets as part of that whole situation because our vets are not taken care of properly.

  Donald Trump

  Strong, Military, Taken

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I am reading "The Yellow Birds" by Kevin Powers and "Redeployment" by Phil Klay . Both Powers and Klay are Iraq War vets. Klay's stories are remarkable.

  George Packer

  War, Reading, Iraq

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I haven't endorsed John McCain. And I've never been there with John McCain because I've always felt that he should've done a much better job for the vets. He has not done a good job for the vets and I've always felt that he should've done a much better job for the vets.

  Donald Trump

  Jobs, Done, Good Job

  "The Republican Nominee in his own words". Interview with Philip Rucker, www.washingtonpost.com. August 02, 2016.

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• Our vets are not being treated properly. They're not being treated fairly.

  Donald Trump

  Treated

  "Trump on supporting Paul Ryan: 'I'm not quite there yet' - as it happened" by Scott Bixby, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2016.

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• The media and my opponent discuss one thing and only one thing, the needs of people living here illegally. In many cases, by the way, they're treated better than our vets.

  Donald Trump

  Media, People, Needs

  "Transcript of Donald Trump's Immigration Speech" by Travis Dove, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• Don't forget our vets. They have been forgotten.

  Donald Trump

  Forget, Forgotten, Has Beens

  Donald Trump's Immigration Speech in Phoenix, www.latimes.com. August 31, 2016.

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• In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.

  Richard V. Allen

  Office, Administration, Public Office

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• Hillary Clinton and I will do immigration enforcement and we'll vet refugees based on whether they're dangerous or not, we won't do it based on discriminating against you from the country you come from or the religion that you come from.

  Tim Kaine

  Country, Immigration, Enforcement

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Didn't vet Bernard Kerik sufficiently for DHS recommendation.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Recommendations

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