John Kerry: “I think the veterans community had every right in the world to question whether people here had lost all sense of…”

“I think the veterans community had every right in the world to question whether people here had lost all sense of priority and all sense of connection to the kinds of commitments that we make along the way and certainly the good faith relationship between those who have served their country and had a certain set of promises made to them--I might add, not things that they requested originally, not things that were the conditions automatically of their service, but were, in a sense, the rewards to that service given at a time later on. And all of a sudden to find that, in the hurly-burly of the moment, people are so little connected to the meaning of that service, that there is sort of a grab that takes place for money for bridges and roads in the transit bill, to the exclusion of legitimately rightfully earned benefits that come as a consequence of serving the country, is really quite extraordinary. I think their anger was well placed and understandable.”