Veteran quotes
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I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.
-- Barry Zito -
If you can't afford to take care of your #‎ veterans , then don't go to war.
-- Bernie Sanders -
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
-- Brian Setzer -
I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005.
-- Christine Pelosi -
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I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.
-- Corrine Brown -
Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.
-- Corrine Brown -
He didn't like very many people any more, or very many things either. He preferred not to be this way, but there it was, he was like that. His cynicism, a veteran's cynicism, was a thing that disturbed him all the time.
-- David Guterson -
More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.
-- Eric Shinseki -
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The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.
-- Frank D. Gilroy -
I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there.
-- Gary Sinise -
You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.
-- Giulio Douhet -
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 -
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Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.
-- Howard Bach -
The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth disputed whether John Kerry deserved some of his five medals. A large part of Kerry's defense was an appeal to the authority of veterans who supported him-one of whom has now been revealed to have received a medal he doesn't deserve. This doesn't prove the Kerry detractors were right, but it certainly doesn't weaken their case.
-- James Taranto -
Caring for veterans shouldn't be a partisan issue. It should an American one.
-- Jennifer Granholm -
Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.
-- Jim Bridenstine -
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America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.
-- Jim Ramstad -
I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.
-- Joe Klein -
Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.
-- John Oliver -
The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
-- Kurt Vonnegut -
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I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
-- Laurie Halse Anderson -
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 -
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 -
I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
-- Michael Jackson -
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Forget the veterans. They havent told me anything, and they better not come tell me anything, either.
-- Miguel Cabrera -
We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.
-- Omar N. Bradley -
I would not call myself a veteran conspiracy theorist. Or an obsessed one. I pretty much peaked on the whole conspiracy theory thing in the '60s, with the grassy knoll, who really killed JFK, and who ordered the hit on Lee Harvey Oswald.
-- Patti Davis -
America's trying to do the best for its veterans.
-- R. Lee Ermey -
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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.
-- R. Lee Ermey -
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.
-- Robert Jay Lifton -
I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.
-- Sue Kelly -
Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.
-- Thomas Mullen -
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It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.
-- Tom Udall -
As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.
-- Tulsi Gabbard -
There will be no veterans of World War III.
-- Walter F. Mondale -
Sachin Tendulkar has often reminded me of a veteran army colonel who has many medals on his chest to show how he has conquered bowlers all over the world.
-- Allan Donald -
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We respect everybody's individual opinion, and we have so much respect for veterans. We're probably one of the biggest movie employer of veterans.
-- Ian Bryce -
I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.
-- Max Martini -
Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.
-- Phil Klay -
You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.
-- Rashid Khalidi -
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Mortgage is one of the most popular deductions. It costs the Treasury about $103 billion a year. Now that's money we could use to treat wounded veterans or reduce the deficit or fill the border. Instead, we give it a subsidy to homeowners, and it goes mainly to the richest homeowners in America, because only one third of Americans itemize their deductions. It doesn't work. Many countries have gotten rid of the mortgage interest deduction. Almost all of them have higher homeownership rates than we do.
-- T.R. Reid -
More often than not, you find players seeing something that they can help another player with or reinforce something the coaches are seeing. Veterans do that regularly with younger players.
-- Brendan Daly -
Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.
-- D. V. Ager -
Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.
-- Jodi Kantor -
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Every # Veteran is a hero.
-- Joe Walsh
