Political Quotes

Doug Collins

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U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Representative for Georgia's 9th District (2013–2021).

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May 5, 2025

We have been emphatic that we will not be cutting benefits and health care, only improving them, and I think the budget shows that.

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May 5, 2025

The department’s history shows that adding more employees to the system doesn’t automatically equal better results.

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Mar 31, 2025

finally going to give the veterans what they want.

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Mar 16, 2025

I mean no disrespect to anyone, but VA should not be focused on helping Veterans attempt to change their sex.

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Mar 5, 2025

There will not be any more opportunities to stop termination of contracts that are on the termination lists, these are the rules of the road today.

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Mar 5, 2025

Now, we regret anyone who loses their job, and it’s extraordinarily difficult for me, especially as a VA leader and your secretary, to make these types of decisions.

msnbc.com
Mar 5, 2025

For many years, veterans have been asking for a more efficient, accountable and transparent VA. This administration is finally going to give the veterans what they want.

newsweek.com
Mar 5, 2025

But the federal government does not exist to employ people. It exists to serve people.

msnbc.com
Mar 4, 2025

For many years, veterans have been asking for a more efficient, accountable and transparent V.A. This administration is finally going to give the veterans what they want.

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Feb 26, 2025

We are putting money back to veterans’ health, back to veterans’ benefits.

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Feb 13, 2025

I'm the Secretary of VA, and I'm telling you right now, that's not happening … the reality is, veterans benefits aren't getting cut.

newsweek.com
Feb 13, 2025

At VA, we are focused on saving money so it can be better spent on Veteran care.

newsweek.com
Dec 12, 2023

I just don't think hope is a very good business plan.

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Dec 12, 2023

Do you really think that the safety standards are going to be there to meet the technological requirements?

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May 9, 2023

We need tort reform in this country.

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May 9, 2023

The problem is nuclear verdicts out there, these runaway juries. We have got to have tort reform.

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May 1, 2023

I wanted to make sure that we had oversight in every Committee that we had in Congress.

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Aug 28, 2022

But the destruction and the looting and what I just heard on your reporting has got to stop.

msnbc.com
Dec 10, 2020

There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the pit of hell. It is time to send it back to Ebenezer Baptist Church.

msnbc.com
Dec 1, 2020

She's desperate to hide the fact that as the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, she spent $30 million trying to buy a Senate seat. And after a private coronavirus briefing, she dumped millions in stock. She profited off the pandemic…

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Nov 30, 2020

There is no such thing as a pro-choice pastor. What you have is a lie from the pit of hell. It is time to send it back to Ebenezer Baptist Church.

msnbc.com
Sep 16, 2020

Peaceful protests, we need to see that. Folks who want to go out and share the outrage that I feel that others feel. That the communities feel, we have been saying that.

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Jul 27, 2020

So as the law enforcement officer in this country, it is your responsibility to provide justice for both sides, and just call it as it should be, and I think that is what you have done there.

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Jul 27, 2020

As an attorney and especially a prosecutor, do you think it is appropriate to charge a law enforcement officer with a crime as severe as felony murder without giving the investigation more than a mere days?

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Jul 27, 2020

Don't you think it encourages the violence that we are seeing and encourages the participation against the police?

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