Top 45 VA Quotes

We have more women serving in the military than any time in our nation’s history, and yet the VA has not done a pivot to look at women’s healthcare issues.

A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something’s being done better than the VA.

When I interviewed profilers in 1984 in the basement of the FBI Academy at Quantico, VA., there were just four of them – Roger Depue, John Douglas, Roy Hazelwood, and Robert Ressler.

What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system – health care wise, safety wise – highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I’m very comfortable in the quality of our system.

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.

We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It’s the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that’s been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we’re trying to do is to get people to understand that we’re doing great work every day.

I’m still Elliott Yamin. I’m still the funky white Jewish boy from Richmond, Va.

I’ve never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can’t speak for those guys.

On Monument Avenue in Richmond, Va., there are statues of five Confederate luminaries and then, incongruously in this company, one of Arthur Ashe.

Any veteran can tell you it is already hard enough to see a doctor down at the VA and get the health care they were promised when they signed up to serve this country.

It was clear that VA was in need of reform, and when the president asked for help, I could not say no. First, I felt I could help, and my private sector experience was relevant. Second, that this was my chance to give back to those that had stepped up to serve our country.

My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age.

The VA secretary runs the second largest federal agency in the country, providing services to American patriots who risked everything in service to this nation.

When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view themselves as disabled.

During my childhood, my father, a Southern Baptist minister, and my mother, a teacher, made sure I took educational trips to cities such as Washington, D.C., Williamsburg, Va., Philadelphia, and Boston to learn about America’s history.

As a veteran myself, I know how outdated some VA facilities are and the negative impact that can have.

I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector – the communal aspect of VA.

The VA should use every tool at their disposal to support and treat our veterans, including the specialized care offered by service dogs.

The last time I was in there to set up for a surgery, I was sitting in the waiting room … watching television. And a special came on the news about a guy who got AIDS from re-used medical equipment in the VA. It was the same procedure I was fixing to get. I’m gone. Deuces. I walked out, man.

Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said that they do receive good care. However, it’s getting into the system – the wait periods. We have to do something about that. The care here has been good. We’re not seeing that in other states.

I do think that VA, as the largest employer of nurses and the largest health system in the country, often does become a place where we can demonstrate advances in medical practice.

I went to elementary school in Falls Church, Va.

My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes – I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More ‘va va voom,’ I guess you can say.

I didn’t know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.

When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.

The VA MISSION Act is one of the first bills I was fortunate enough to support and see enacted into law.

Caring for our nation’s veterans must be our top priority as we work to create a more efficient and effective healthcare system at the VA.

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

The VA MISSION Act signed into law by President Trump will do a great deal to improve access to health care for rural veterans but it will require vigilance to ensure we provide annual appropriations needed to implement it.

We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.

After four tours of duty as a Navy SEAL officer, I came home from Iraq and watched the VA – the second-biggest bureaucracy in the country – fail my friends. The VA was broken and my friends were suffering. And yet, time and again, the only ‘solution’ I heard from liberals was to spend more money. It made me angry.

I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.

The VA does a lot of good things, but determining if a firm is a small business is not one of them.

Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it.

When Congress puts party labels aside, like we did on VA reform, we can accomplish some great things for the American people. But those occasions were far too rare.

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.

Norman Hooten’s dedication and commitment to serving his fellow veterans is what VA is all about.

For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.

I graduated from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with degrees in journalism and Spanish in 2001 and landed my first on-air job in Charlottesville, Va.

It’s too bad we can’t take VA leadership and export it and give it to some of our adversaries around the planet. Let them suffer under VA’s leadership.

Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

It shouldn’t take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation’s heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought.

I say we put a choice card in every veteran’s hands to say, ‘You choose.’ You control your health care. If you want to go to the VA, which most veterans like, go to the VA. But if you want to go outside of the system, here’s your choice card. You go outside of the system.

That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic.