Eric Shinseki: “Providing quality, safe, accessible health care for our veterans who have earned them is a core mission.”

One suicide is a tragedy and it's one suicide too many.

In this year's budget, if we were to look back to 2009 and come forward through our budgets, women veterans' programs have been increased by 134 percent.

We have hired--we have over 100,000 veterans as part of our workforce, fully 30 percent, and our goal is 40 percent.

I assure them that at VA our experience is when we diagnose and treat whatever the issue is, but even PTS or PTSD, that people improve and that they should not let that be a barrier to them making a hiring decision.