Robert Wilkie: “I am humbled today not only by the confidence placed in me by the President of the United States and the support of our…”

There is nothing more important, and there is nothing more tragic, and you have my commitment that as long as I am privileged to be part of the VA team, that will continue to be the case.

Let's not be so arrogant that we think we can build a mouse trap from the Federal Government from Washington that is going to satisfy the customer.

While all Executive Branch departments and agencies must carry out their missions without consideration or influence of partisan politics, I have said in my visits across the department - visits that in the last five weeks cover ten VA…

That is why I am for choice. That is why I am for giving the veterans freedom to choose, to opt out of a system that may not be working for them.