Salute To Veterans Quotes

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

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

But this Veterans Day, I believe we should do more than sing the praises of the bravery and patriotism that our veterans have embodied in the past. We should take this opportunity to re-evaluate how we are treating our veterans in the present. ~ Nick Lampson

I do engage veterans. I meet with the veterans' service organizations monthly. It's a direct, no-holds-barred discussion. I travel to their conventions, where I speak to the veterans membership. I do travel. I've been to all 50 states. When I do, I engage veterans locally. So I get direct feedback from those veterans. ~ Eric Shinseki

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. ~ Nick Lampson

Republicans talk a good game about veterans, but when it came to put money on the line to protect our veterans, frankly, they were not there. ~ Bernie Sanders

They that know one another salute a farre off. ~ George Herbert

On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free. ~ Dan Lipinski

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. ~ Barbara Bush

In order to insure proper and widespread observance of this anniversary, all veterans, all veterans' organizations, and the entire citizenry will wish to join hands in the common purpose. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

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. ~ Dick Durbin

I am a fascist, not a racist. I give the straight arm salute because it is a salute from a 'camerata' to 'camerati'. The salute is aimed at my people. With the straight arm I don't want to incite violence and certainly not racial hatred. ~ Paolo Di Canio

In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care. ~ Doc Hastings

Always be sexy. I salute that message. ~ Ted Cruz

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue, I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington. ~ Doc Hastings

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed. ~ Steve Buyer

In Congress, while the House's proposed defense budget calls for significant increases, it also cuts 11 billion dollars from veterans spending - including healthcare and disability pay. Be clear: we can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. ~ Jennifer Granholm

As a former veteran, I understand the needs of veterans, and have been clear - we will work together, stand together with the Administration, but we will also question their policies when they shortchange veterans and military retirees. ~ Solomon Ortiz

While only one day of the year is dedicated solely to honoring our veterans, Americans must never forget the sacrifices that many of our fellow countrymen have made to defend our country and protect our freedoms. ~ Randy Neugebauer

Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life. ~ George Best

In fact, our monthly trade deficit figure is so huge it equals the entire annual budget of our Department of Veterans Affairs. Veterans fought to make us free from foreign tyranny, but the new tyranny is taking a different form. ~ Marcy Kaptur

But now I salute you who follow me,It is my time to stand at ease ... content. ~ Christopher Vokes

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. ~ Doc Hastings

America's trying to do the best for its veterans. ~ R. Lee Ermey

I find it significant that most military veterans become pacifists. ~ Michel Templet

If you can't get them to salute when they should salute and wear the clothes you tell them to wear, how are you going to get them to die for their country? ~ George S. Patton

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude. ~ Jeff Miller

I had the privilege and the honor of chairing the Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs. And it is interesting to me, you know, Republicans give a lot of speeches about how much they love veterans. I work with the American Legion, the VFW, the DAV, the Vietnam Vets, and virtually every veterans organization to put together the most comprehensive piece of the veterans legislation in the modern history of America. That's what I did. ~ Bernie Sanders

I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world. ~ Phil Roe

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. ~ Peter Berg

In addition to demanding answers and accountability from the Veterans Administration, Congress had to act to ensure veterans do not suffer because of the actions of a federal agency. ~ Doc Hastings

The concept behind the modern military salute is the same. A salute was an acknowledgment of the influence of the goddess of health, Salus. ~ David Flynn

Today is Veterans Day. Thank you to all our men and women who have served the United States armed forces. In honor of Veterans Day we are marching out a few jokes that have already served. ~ David Letterman

If God were only mighty, we would Salute Him. But since he is Merciful and Mighty, we can approach Him. ~ Max Lucado

How can we salute - encourage the American spirit? That means many different things to many different people. ~ Desiree Rogers

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans. ~ Tom Udall

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. ~ Charles B. Rangel

Respect and salute your democratic values and system; otherwise, you will obey and salute your enemies; it risks a defeat of your national dignity and solidarity. ~ Ehsan Sehgal

I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug. ~ Ellen Tauscher

I spent five years working very hard to develop a relationship with the veterans' service organizations. We have together worked some major projects. ~ Eric Shinseki

I co-founded the DNC Veterans and Military Families Council in 2005. ~ Christine Pelosi

As a quiet salute to Beavis and Butthead, I held up my index finger and thumb in an "L"-the international sign for loser. ~ Michael Moore

The legislation I introduced was, according to the veterans' organizations, the most comprehensive piece of legislation offered for them in many decades. Sadly, despite the strong support of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), and other organizations, my legislation only received fifty-six votes on the floor of the Senate - all of the Democrats, but only two Republicans. We needed sixty votes. It turned out that Republicans loved veterans very much, except when it came to funding their needs. If ~ Bernie Sanders

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans. ~ Gary Sinise

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.
So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things.
What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance.
And all music is. ~ Kurt Vonnegut

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. ~ Robert Jay Lifton

I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. ~ Gary Sinise

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

What the 1990s taught the Clinton veterans was that you could 'triangulate' with a GOP-controlled Congress. ~ Timothy Noah

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness. ~ Phil Klay

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. ~ Steve Buyer

I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices. ~ Taya Kyle

We pretended there was no problem with Agent Orange after Vietnam and later the Pentagon recanted, after untold suffering by veterans. ~ Jim McDermott

One of the primary reasons I first ran for Congress was to be a voice for our troops, veterans and military families. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand

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

Wincing, I turned, gave her a salute, because that's what mafia hit men do when they're in a bathroom with a naked girl, they salute her like a freaking boy scout, and then leave. ~ Rachel Van Dyken

I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical. ~ Jackie Walorski

I salute the poor of our country who have deposited more than Rs 20,000 crore in Jan Dhan Bank Accounts. ~ Narendra Modi

Now Congress learns that the Veterans Administration failed to provide complete, accurate information on the money it needs for both this year and next year. ~ Doc Hastings

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. ~ Tom Harkin

To The Veterans of the United States of America
Thank you, for the cost you paid for our freedom, thank you for the freedom to live in safety and pursue happiness, for freedom of speech (thus my book), and for all the freedoms that we daily take for granted. ~ Sara Niles

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress. ~ Nick Lampson

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans. ~ Max Martini

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

Trees salute the sunset, the sunset salutes the trees and we salute both of them! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes. ~ Bernie Sanders

On Veterans Day, we take time to honor those men and women who bravely serve and have served our nation in the U.S. Armed Forces. ~ Todd Tiahrt

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime. ~ Wesley Clark

Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip. ~ Jim Bridenstine

I am a Marine Corps veteran, but more importantly - or as important maybe - I'm the chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee and the House Veterans Affair Committee. ~ Mike Coffman

Though the publishing industry swears the market is oversaturated, books written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and by embedded journalists keep on coming. ~ Matt Gallagher

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country. ~ Corrine Brown

I doubt that my sense of personal freedom is any stronger than anybody else's. I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore. ~ Edward Abbey

Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans. ~ Cliff Stearns

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us. ~ Jim Davis

For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time. ~ Taya Kyle

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences. ~ Phil Klay

Today we have done an hour's saluting drill because Tjaden failed to salute a major smartly enough. Kat can't get it out of his head. "You take it from me, we are losing the war because we can salute too well," he says. Kropp ~ Erich Maria Remarque

Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World. ~ Mary Chapin Carpenter

The need for this clinic is clear to me, to the veterans who are currently forced to travel hours to receive care, and even to the Veterans Administration that itself identified creation of a clinic in this part of our state as a priority to be completed by 2006. ~ Doc Hastings

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. ~ Marco Rubio

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. ~ Neil Sheehan

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

Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right. ~ Maajid Nawaz

Veterans are driven by the same frustrations that the public has with what is happening in Washington ... the fiscal irresponsibility and the financial crisis that our country is facing. ~ Pete Hegseth

Support our troops!" we cry, but I say, "Love our veterans!" And when he neglects church, take him cookies anyway. Sing him a song. Pet his cat. ~ Chila Woychik

Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man. ~ R.C. Sproul

When you run for president of the United States, everybody does the same thing in the campaign-they talk about veterans, how much they admire them, how grateful they are. ~ Mark Shields

It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder. ~ Bob Ney

Remember the unremembered; love the unloved; salute the unsaluted; hear the unheard; do the things which have not been done! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Cacopardo stepped back, and raised his hand in a Fascist salute. Then, as his aged memory functioned, the hand wavered over to his forehead, and the salute became military. And he said: "Cacopardo is sulphur and sulphur is Cacopardo. ~ John Hersey

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled. ~ Sue Kelly

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing. ~ Kirsten Gillibrand

And then she glared at me, the same glare my stepmother used to give me when I gave her the Nazi salute. That woman was so touchy about her resemblance to Hitler. ~ Darynda Jones

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible. ~ Big Sean

I think there's where we can enlist the veterans service organizations, the veterans of America, because, yes, let's fix the V.A., but we will never let it be privatized, and that is a promise. ~ Hillary Clinton

The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan. ~ Neal Boortz

The rules also explicitly stated that carrying a shovel, standing on a rooftop while speaking on a cell phone, or holding binoculars or being out after curfew constituted hostile intent, and we were authorized to use deadly force. ~ Iraq Veterans Against The War

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home. ~ David O. Russell

In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in peace it is not enough. ~ Bill Moyers