"I am deeply honored and humbled that President Obama has given me this opportunity to serve our Nation's veterans."
"I hope to approach my job with openness, transparency, and just being always available to be asked questions."
"We will also be proactive in communicating with you and with our Veterans."
"We must develop social networking strategies, non-traditional outlets such as blogs and use a wide variety of new media available to get the message of available benefits out to our veterans."
"We started the Illinois Warrior Assistance Program...to address the needs of veteran residents."
"My position, should I be confirmed, will be to make sure that veterans know of all the options that are available to them."
"If I am confirmed, I am going to make sure that we do not do that to the post-9/11 vets."
"is not that why we are fighting this war, so that Americans can express their point of view and have freedom of speech?"
"Just as our Nation learned from our Vietnam veterans that we must love the warrior regardless of our personal stand on the war, we must also learn the lesson of how Department of Veterans Affairs lost..."
"My job, my position will be to make sure that we access community providers, that we enter into partnerships with nongovernmental organizations."
"I plan on approaching my job with the utmost level of transparency and accessibility."