I hope, as you look at examples of IT and success in the VA, that you will look at the Eisenhower Army Medical Center at Fort Gordon and Augusta VA Medical Center's uptown facility.

It is very important that we see to it that that is a seamless transition.

Those are extremely important. Our State has one of the largest veterans populations of any State in the country.

I want to thank you and commend you on your service to the country and thank you very much for being willing to assume the responsibilities of the VA.

I commend Taiwan's President Ma and China's President Hu Jintao for seizing the opportunity created by President Ma Ying-jeou's election this past March.

It is important for Beijing to demonstrate to the people of Taiwan that the practical and nonconfrontational approach taken by President Ma toward the mainland can achieve positive results.

I believe that it is appropriate for the United States to support Taiwan's efforts to expand its international space, such as observer status at the World Health Assembly.

We understand the need to deal with Hamas, but we also have to recognize the threat here that Hamas may in fact wind up being more powerful than Fatah.

I want to commend you on what you have accomplished.

I think it is important to recognize that it has achieved its stated purpose, which is improving or lowering the gap.

Sometimes our enemies are not the nations or doctrines but they're in fact hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos.