In November 2011, the President signed into law the Returning Heroes Tax Credit.

Every man or woman who has served in our country's uniformed services deserves the full protection of our employment laws, including USERRA.

We must do our utmost to ensure that all service members' employment and reemployment rights are respected.

Attracting and retaining the best talent means ensuring fair treatment for individuals who have served our country.

Our service members, their families, and our country all benefit from veterans' talents, experience, and dedication.

I challenge the private sector to hire or train 100,000 veterans and their spouses by 2013.

And we did it in front of wounded warriors, so it gave them a chance to see up close and personal some of the greatest basketball talent.

And we must all continue our efforts to ensure that these talented men and women who would be an asset to any company have every opportunity to succeed after they serve our Nation.

No veteran who fought for our Nation overseas should have to fight for a job when they return home.

Helping our veterans find work strengthening America's transportation system is a commitment we are proud to fulfill.

I want to make sure that every single veteran who comes home from Iraq or Afghanistan, that they don't have to fight for a job or a roof over their heads here in the United States of America after they fought for us.

I'm going to make sure that anyone who serves this country gets every opportunity they deserve.

The Principles should ensure that these educational institutions provide meaningful information to service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members about the financial cost and quality of educational institutions.

To ensure our service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members have the information they need to make informed decisions concerning their well-earned Federal military and veterans educational benefits, I am directing my Administration to develop Principles of Excellence.

We owe the same obligations to this generation of service men and women as was afforded that previous one.

Service members, veterans, spouses, and other family members should have access to a strong enforcement system through which to file complaints when institutions fail to follow the Principles.

Fort Ord's dramatic landscape lives in the memories of thousands of veterans as their first taste of Army life, as a final stop before deploying to war, or as a home base during their military career.

Standing up for our veterans is not a Democratic responsibility or a Republican responsibility, it is an American responsibility.