Top 230 Veterans Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Veterans Quotes from famous people such as Lois Frankel, Steve Buyer, Conor Lamb, John T. Chambers, Brian Banks, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Veterans have stood up for us.

Veterans have stood up for us.
Lois Frankel
Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.
Steve Buyer
I introduced the FREED Vets Act to make student debt forgiveness for disabled veterans automatic, both now and in the future, regardless of who is in the White House.
Conor Lamb
We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today’s workforce.
John T. Chambers
Just to be on the sideline and to hear all the veterans tell you, ‘Man, when your turn comes, when they call your number, just play.’ Just the support and love from everybody is more than I can ask for.
Brian Banks
Our veterans, and especially our women veterans, need our support and the support of one another.
Lucy McBath
There’s an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they’re mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they’ve built to look like a temple. It’s just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
Jimmy Kimmel
Veterans typically retire from the military at an early age with plans for a civilian career ahead of them. They bring with them significant skills learned in the military, which is why we desperately need to attract more of them to our state.
Phil Scott
We need to look at how we can better fortify our force protection at military installations. But also, how can we deal with these mental health issues with our returning veterans? And our suicide rate in the military is twice as high as the average population.
Michael McCaul
Whenever I’m given a chance to support veterans’ initiatives, I try to do that. Children and veterans – if they’re involved, you can pretty much count me in.
Rob Riggle
Thousands of our post-9/11 veterans carry the invisible burden of post-traumatic stress, and there is an overwhelming need to expand the available treatment options.
Ron DeSantis
Legislation on Lyme disease, weather patterns, helping farmers, helping veterans – these are not partisan issues.
Chris Gibson
It would be ill-advised to compare war and a sport, but I don’t think the brain knows the difference. With post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries in blasts with veterans, we see a very similar and somewhat unique issue with repetitive brain injuries in football.
Chris Borland
Since war became a geographically distant but very real way of life after Sept. 11, 2001, no Hollywood star has stepped up to support active duty U.S. military personnel and wounded veterans like Gary Sinise.
Andrew Breitbart
We can’t equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that’s not just measured in words or gestures.
Jennifer Granholm
When I did the national anthem, I did a soulful, kind of gospel-y version, but it was controversial with the war veterans, just the people who wanted to hear it the old, clinical, atmospheric way, and I didn’t want to sing it like that.
Jose Feliciano
One of the key issues all veterans face is making the transition to a civilian career, and for veterans who need extra medical attention, this can be even more difficult.
John Delaney
My father had many, many veterans over to the house, and the older I got the more I appreciated their sacrifice.
Steven Spielberg
As Governor and a veteran myself, it is always a privilege to thank the many veterans I meet while traveling across the state.
Mike Parson
I’m a member of the American legion and VFW, patron member of the Jewish War Veterans.
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Although we can never fully repay our veterans, on Veterans Day we thank our veterans for their selflessness and commit to do what we can to improve the quality of life for our veterans and military families in communities across America.
Elizabeth Esty
Whether it’s developers or industry veterans on the business side, top talent likes to work together.
Brendan Iribe
Veterans’ issues were always a priority in my work in the legislature and continue to be now as governor.
John Bel Edwards
We need to ensure that veterans are in charge of their health care and not the government.
Mercedes Schlapp
Veterans come from all walks of life, and they live in small towns and big cities, in red states and blue states.
John Delaney
Veterans continue to get the short end of the stick when it comes to this administration.
Corrine Brown
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
Memorial Day isn’t just about honoring veterans, its honoring those who lost their lives. Veterans had the fortune of coming home. For us, that’s a reminder of when we come home we still have a responsibility to serve. It’s a continuation of service that honors our country and those who fell defending it.
Pete Hegseth
Many veterans in Mississippi struggle with the bureaucratic process of the Veterans Administration.
Cindy Hyde-Smith
Whether defending our nation as a Black Hawk pilot abroad or serving our veterans and those in need at home, my life has been enriched by the opportunities I’ve had to serve my country and fellow citizens, both in and out of uniform.
Tammy Duckworth
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
I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our

I am super proud of being an American, but we fail our veterans every day.
Laurie Halse Anderson
While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.
Kirsten Gillibrand
I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.
Jane Fonda
You always want to improve, learn from the veterans on the team.
Dirk Nowitzki
Veterans have the skills employers want – discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.
Bobby Kotick
Veterans are my life’s work. From the day my buddies saved my life in Iraq, I’ve woken up every single day dedicated to taking care of veterans and doing my best for veterans.
Tammy Duckworth
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
I’m extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sacrifices.
Taya Kyle
When I was writing my first book, ‘In Harm’s Way,’ I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I was surprised that sometimes their grandchildren hadn’t talked to them about the historic events of that night in July 1945, when the USS Indianapolis went down.
Doug Stanton
Disabled veterans are not a bargaining chip.
Jim Bridenstine
What is interesting in Washington, D.C., is I’ve never missed a vote. The veterans’ committee keeps track of hearings, and I’ve never missed a hearing or a vote on the VA committee.
Mike Coffman
Caring for veterans shouldn’t be a partisan issue. It should an American one.
Jennifer Granholm
There are so many veterans in Kansas with the entrepreneurial skills it takes to run a small business, and we must do a better job at setting them up for success.
Sharice Davids
We’ve got to make sure our veteran, Democratic veterans are strengthened and feel like they are fully included.
Keith Ellison
Helping veterans isn’t just a part of my job. For me, it’s personal. It’s in my blood.
Tom Perez
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
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
My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.
Matt Skiba
My fear was of being offered a job that would be kind of a full-time position at a veterans organization or even in the government… I’d prefer to not be that, to come up the Beltway every day.
John F. Kelly
Veterans who are homeless may not have a home, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have diverse skills that could be put to use to meet the needs of an expanding job market.
Chris Gardner
I want to create an informed and respectful dialogue about the opportunities and challenges facing our veterans.
Erin O’Toole
As we try to compete in this global marketplace, we need to rebuild our infrastructure. We need to rebuild our schools. We need to make sure that teachers and first responders and veterans who are coming home from serving our country so proudly have jobs waiting for them.
Valerie Jarrett
We need to make sure our veterans have health care not just when they come home but throughout their lives.
Brad Schneider