Political Quotes

I will not sit here and tell you that I am going to give you a metric and that we will eliminate veteran suicide.

I want to give the VA a shout-out and there are some--obviously, we are going over some problems today that the VA had, but all in all I think the VA probably has the opportunity to be one of the best systems in the country.

But I am mindful of something Rahm Emanuel said when he was chief of staff to President Obama in 2009. He said you never let a serious crisis go to waste. I am afraid some of us are doing that here.

The provision in Section 2, it says, 'The Secretary shall give preference in the provision of financial assistance under this section to eligible entities who have demonstrated the ability to provide assistance and suicide prevention…