Veteran Quotes

Veteran Quote of the day

If you can't afford to take care of your #‎ veterans , then don't go to war.

War is organized murder, and nothing else.

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.

I am a Korean War veteran. I support our troops as much as anyone in this body, but I do so by advocating redeployment out of Iraq as soon as it can be safely done.

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

We do not need to have a president who insults Mexicans and Latinos and Muslims and women and veterans and African-Americans, we need a president who brings us together, not divides us up.

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

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

We are dealing with veterans, not procedures; with their problems, not ours.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

Don't pretend to know everything. I've been blessed to work with a lot of veteran actors, and I soak up lessons from them like a sponge.

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

The Chinese soldier was tough, brave, and experienced. After all he had been fighting on his own without help for years. He was a veteran among the Allies.

You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

Every #‎ Veteran is a hero.

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.

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

Freedom is never free.

I am convinced that America's great sea of goodwill can be, in fact, a rising tide, a tide that could lift every veteran and every family of our wounded and fallen.

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.

You have to be a soldier and a veteran, or a soldier who sacrificed your life for your country.

The winning team has a dedication. It will have a core of veteran players who set the standards. They will not accept defeat.

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Coming in as a veteran, I'd like to finish with a gold medal.

Just because I'm a younger artist doesn't mean I can't work with a veteran and vice versa.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace.

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

I've been described as a grizzled political veteran.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

[My grandfather -a miner] had black lung, and he didn't talk about it much. It's almost like a combat veteran. But he witnessed some horrific things.

The backlash to [Sarah] Palin's comments was swift, with veterans and veterans' groups criticizing the apparent politicization of post-traumatic stress disorder.

I am not a veteran environmentalist. I don't live in a house made of recycled tires, I've never handcuffed myself to a tree, and I don't grow my own organic rutabaga.

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.

As a soldier and combat veteran, I believe American military forces should only be used in the defense and furtherance of our nation's vital interests.

Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

Michelle Obama has mostly stuck to pretty anodyne topics. She's anti-childhood obesity, she's pro-veteran.

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

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.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

I have gone to all over the country and I've met so many veterans and I have tremendous veteran support.

Romney still enjoys the Republicans' traditional advantage among voters who are veterans, but the Obama campaign is confident it can chip away at that.

What I do see is the right from the beginning that [Donald] Trump had an interest and was very persuasive in terms of talking about the veterans and needing to make changes there.

Giving a veteran a flag is not a substitute for giving our vets the quality health care they were promised

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

As a Korean War Veteran I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.