"This perception that you know is real, that you guys are just trying to delay these until they die, or you are told to kick them back and not approve them, that causes so much tension in this."
"It is our goal to try and get there, to do a more perfect union, if you will."
"I think a fix on this--and I throw this out. I maybe should have asked the Colonel when he was up here from the state perspective a little more. I am a big fan of these county veteran service officers..."
"Older veterans, we all lived through this where you wouldn't go to a VA hospital because you were afraid of the care you would get."
"It is absolutely ludicrous that we don't have that seamless."
"In a time of economic uncertainty, we have to be very pointed in how we are doing this."
"If you leave with anything, leave with the faith that although messy and ugly and, as Churchill said, the worst form of government ever, as democracy is, but better than every other one."
"There is absolutely no difference culturally in the care of our veterans."
"That is the way it should be done."
"I think it is being targeted, laser focused on that while moving the things we can."
"So we have basically a no-bid contract for $234,000."