Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Shuster

America's veterans and troops serving abroad today fought hard to preserve our red, white and blue, from the Revolutionary War to today's Global War Against Terrorism, and Congress' action today is appropriate for one of our most sacred symbols.

Bill Shuster

Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called.

Carl Sandburg

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes.

Carl von Clausewitz

War should never be thought of as something autonomous, but always as an instrument of policy.

Arthur Koestler

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

Edward Abbey

There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

Aristotle

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Dick Cheney

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Abraham Lincoln

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

Doc Hastings

The most basic obligation we have to our veterans is that we keep the promises that were made to them. That is what makes the recent failures of the Veterans Administration so shameful.

Todd Tiahrt

I will continue to work diligently in Congress to ensure that our veterans receive the benefits and care that they have earned and deserve.

Jim Leyland

We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

Marco Rubio

When I'm president of the United States, we're going to have a VA that cares more about our veterans than about the bureaucrats who work at the VA.

Tom Harkin

While President Bush's tax give-aways for the rich are pushing us further into debt, he compensates by increasing the out-of-pocket costs to our veterans.

Sue Kelly

While we have made great progress in increasing funding for veterans' benefits, we still have a long way to go in fully meeting the promise to our veterans.

Laurie Halse Anderson

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