Veteran Quotes - Page 11

• 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

  Land, America, Foundation

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• Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

  George H. W. Bush

  Christian, Freedom, Sacrifice

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• Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of each member of the group by the law of invisible vibratory exchange of group magnetism.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Spiritual, Self, Law

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• However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.

  Randy Neugebauer

  War, Men, Community

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• We form an association of brothers in all points of the globe ... yet there is one unseen that can hardly be felt, yet it weighs on us. Whence comes it? Where is it? No one knows ... or at least no one tells. This association is secret even to us the veterans of the Secret Societies.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Brother, Secret, Unseen

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• Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

  Steve Buyer

  Strong, Benefits, Lasts

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• We have a VA hospital back home in St. Louis. Like many of our colleagues, we hear continued concerns about the access and the service. I have seen a statistic that more than 60,000 veterans today are waiting more than 6 months for an appointment at a VA hospital.

  Russ Carnahan

  Home, Waiting, Today

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• The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

  James F. Cooper

  Art, Military, Preparation

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• It is regrettable that Senator Kennedy has chosen Veteran's Day to continue leveling baseless and false attacks that send the wrong signal to our troops and our enemy during a time of war. It is also regrettable that Senator Kennedy has found more time to say negative things about President Bush then he ever did about Saddam Hussein. If America were to follow Senator Kennedy's foreign policy, Saddam Hussein would not only still be in power, he would be oppressing and occupying Kuwait.

  Scott McClellan

  War, Kuwait, America

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• As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

  Charles Rangel

  War, Sacrifice, Men

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• Some of the money going to the rookies can now be spent on people who have proved their worth. After all, the average playing life of a pro football player is about eight years and it is only fitting that the veterans get something for their efforts.

  Bob Lilly

  Football, Player, Years

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• I won’t stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband is a doctor, just like I won’t stop standing up for veterans because my father served in World War II.

  Shelley Berkley

  Husband, Father, War

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• 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

  Powerful, Sacrifice, Aggravation

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• Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

  Tony Hillerman

  House, Vietnam, Might

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

  Jim Ramstad

  Veterans Day, Us Veterans, Our Veterans

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• The enduring realization that when a great challenge comes, the most ordinary people can show that they value something more than they value their own lives. When the last of the veterans had gone, and the sorrows and bitterness which the war created had at last worn away, this memory remained.

  Bruce Catton

  Memories, War, People

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• I think what's happening with the veterans is a gift from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we can't get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the world are you going to do it with the entire population?

  Benjamin Carson

  Thinking, Numbers, Care

  "VA scandal 'a gift from God' because it showed Americans how bad Obamacare will be, conservative commentator Ben Carson says" by Francesca Chambers, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 25, 2014.

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• I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the shaping of the earth before man.

  Maya Lin

  Cutting, Men, Land

  Quoted in Smithsonian Magazine, Aug. 1996

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• That's sort of a trick question, and I don't have a trick answer. Next question, please. You're not going to get me with that question today, buddy...I'm a veteran at this, buddy. Can't get that with me, buddy. Not today.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Media, Nba, Answers

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• I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them,
  And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them;
  I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war;
  But I saw they were not as was thought;
  They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not;
  The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd,
  And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd,
  And the armies that remain'd suffer'd.

  Walt Whitman

  Mother, Veterans Day, Children

  Walt Whitman (1870). “Passage to India”, p.39, Haskell House Pub Limited

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• Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

  D. V. Ager

  Experts, Obscure, Obvious

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• I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

  Scott Brooks

  Player, Matter, Able

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• 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

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Our Veterans

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• 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

  Party, Thinking, Long

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• No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Character, Boys, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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