Quotes About Support

Me being a veteran presence, I want to see all my guys be successful.

Veteran employment is an issue that is very important to me and my Administration.

As a veteran myself, I know how outdated some VA facilities are and the negative impact that can have.

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

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.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans - because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

The VA should use every tool at their disposal to support and treat our veterans, including the specialized care offered by service dogs.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

We all want to do everything we can to help our veterans; it is a part of our American values and sense of patriotism.

To those seniors, and especially elderly veterans like myself, I want to tell you this: You are not alone, and you having nothing to be ashamed of. If elder abuse happened to me, it can happen to anyone. I want you to know that you deserve better.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

Congress should stop treating veterans like they're asking for a hand out when it comes to the benefits they were promised, and they should realize that, were it not for these veterans, there would be nothing to hand out.

Congress needs to give the VA every tool possible to meet the mental health challenges facing our veterans before they get to the point of danger.

I fully support giving our veterans a tax break on military retirement.

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

Our veterans are phenomenally important. They've given everything to us, haven't they? Everything. Do we really take care of them? I mean, for crying out loud, we can't even maintain their cemetery. We've got to do better. We have to do better.

I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.

As governor, I will run an administration prioritizing veterans, and that means getting them actual results.

We do a very good job at fixing broken bodies but not such a great job at healing broken minds with our returning veterans.

Finding gainful employment to pay for housing is hard for any veteran experiencing homelessness. It's even more difficult for veterans who've also had encounters with police and stints in jail.

Too many veterans are poor or near poor and homeless because of it.

As a voice for Georgia in the U.S. Senate, I'm committed to making sure Washington is keeping its promise to our veterans.

Whenever I'm given a chance to support veterans' initiatives, I try to do that. Children and veterans - if they're involved, you can pretty much count me in.

I have veterans in my family. But I didn't know anything about DAV, Disabled American Veterans.