David Roe: “And you have to have both.”

When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute.

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

It is embarrassing to me to go home and to look those folks in the eye who work as hard as they do and write the checks they do to see this big of a disaster, financial disaster.

Do not imply, Mr. Secretary, I care any less about the veterans who are committing suicide. I have declared suicide prevention to be the No. 1 priority of this committee.