"Suicide is a national tragedy. It is not just the VA; it is a national tragedy for us."
"Every time a life is lost to suicide, it is a tragedy."
"The members here have heard me say this many times, in the Guard in Tennessee we have a program called Guard Your Buddy, which has been shown to reduce suicide by almost 70 percent."
"the crisis of veteran suicide is not new, but our solutions must be, and that is why I introduced the Veterans' Acute Crisis Care for Emergent Suicide Symptoms Act, or Veterans' ACCESS Act, that will ..."
"I think educating the public about this is extremely important and then being prepared for this, if it does."
"I think one of the most distressing statistics I heard during our roundtable in Tennessee was that the second-leading cause of death between the ages of 10 and 34 is 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..."
"When suicide occurs in a hospital, a place where the most vulnerable go for help, that loss feels particularly acute."
"I believe we have to really get back and reconstitute our mental health infrastructure in this country."
"I want to get this on the record thanking you for advocating breastfeeding and I think that is a huge thing that you have done."
"Why don't we take a public health approach?"