Quotes About America's Veterans

#1. Our veterans deserve the very best, and that means ensuring that America's veterans receive high-quality services and cares when they come back home.

Elizabeth Warren

#2. The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

Jeff Miller

#3. 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

#4. America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

John Doolittle

#5. America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

Jim Ramstad

#6. Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.

Steve Buyer

#7. America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Steve Buyer

#8. 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

#9. The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories.

Spencer Bachus

#10. 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

#11. But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

Tim Holden

#12. America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat.

James Madison

#13. 55 percent - about 1.4 million veterans among this generation - said they feel disconnected from civilian life in America.

Howard Schultz

#14. 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

#15. Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

R. Lee Ermey

#16. Congress will be tempted to wipe their hands of this, go to the Election Day and say 'we've done our part' and that's where groups like ours, Concerned Veterans for America, veterans across the country have to keep the heat on them to say this is just the start. VA is not fixed.

Pete Hegseth

#17. On Veterans Day, I can't help think of my uncles who volunteered for the service after fleeing a brutal regime in the Dominican Republic. They hadn't been in America long, but they were already so grateful for its opportunities that they were eager to serve.

Thomas Perez

#18. At Concerned Veterans for America, we've made the case that the defense budget could be targeted for spending reform, but in a targeted fashion that genuinely changes unsustainable spending trajectories while preserving U.S. defense capacity.

Pete Hegseth

#19. I will never conduct a war or start a war because we want to; the United States of America should only go to war because we have to. And if you live by that guidance, you'll never have veterans throwing away their medals or standing up in protest.

John F. Kerry

#20. 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

#21. America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

Michael Ignatieff

#22. There is common ground we can look towards and hopefully make this country better for all of us. That is what Joe for America means. I want more jobs. I want veterans to have better benefits and not have them taken away. I want people to succeed in this country and have the tools to do so.

Joe Wurzelbacher

#23. Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

John Warner

#24. From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

John Hoeven

#25. Spending time with America's soldiers is always inspiring.

John Boehner

#26. And when they have done their job, America must look after and honor its veterans.

Adam Schiff

#27. America's trying to do the best for its veterans.

R. Lee Ermey

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

Bill Shuster

#29. The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Steve Buyer

#30. Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) has called for an audit of the Pentagon, so that we finally have some transparency and accountability in how DOD spends taxpayer dollars.

Pete Hegseth

#31. I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

Jeffrey Dunn