Political Quotes

David Roe

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David P. Roe is a former Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving Vermont's 1st congressional district from January 4, 2005, to January 3, 2021. During his time in Congress, Roe was known for his focus on healthcare issues, particularly in relation to veterans and the military. He served on several committees, including the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs, where he advocated for improved services for veterans and their families.

Quotes by year · 2009–20231,687 total · peak 2015 (216)
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Jul 27, 2015

You need to look at those videos to see what the rest of us have looked at.

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Jul 27, 2015

I found this incredibly offensive to me as a physician and as an obstetrician.

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Jul 27, 2015

Could you tell us what you've done to investigate these activities?

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Jul 27, 2015

I'd like to know what your recommendations are to put this on a more sustainable course.

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Jul 21, 2015

I don't understand why 60 percent of the money went to the bureaucracy and $200 million of it actually went to get veterans in to see me as a doctor.

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Jul 21, 2015

I talked to several veterans, and I would be delighted to let you talk to one of the Veterans Service Officers in Hawkins County, Tennessee, that cannot make sense of the Choice program to this day.

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Jul 21, 2015

I think the Choice program, as I understand it, as we envisioned it, was to help get rid of the backlog.

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Jul 21, 2015

I don't know where that information came from. It doesn't exist at our shop, I can tell you.

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Jul 21, 2015

There is no way on this Earth that the primary care is 4 days and that mental health is 3 days and the specialty care is 5 days.

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Jul 21, 2015

I think of a billion dollars that was wasted in Aurora that could have provided VA veterans healthcare.

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Jul 21, 2015

I have been here 6 and a half years and we keep providing more and more and more and more money, and then we have the VA come back for more money.

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Jul 20, 2015

I am sorry I had to leave. I had to go to the House floor to testify on a VA bill.

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Jul 14, 2015

According to the GAO, the VBA has not provided a plan or a timeline for implementing the new verification system.

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Jul 14, 2015

The new IT system--this is 2012. The new IT system is not scheduled to be operational until 2015, and it is still not operational.

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Jul 14, 2015

I just had, not 6 weeks ago, one of the best friends I will ever have on this Earth, who was a Vietnam-era veteran, who died of a very rare lymphoma that very well may have been related to Agent Orange.

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Jul 13, 2015

I am really, I am not sure, as I said here before, that I can vote to let the VA build another major project.

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Jul 13, 2015

Thank you all for advocating for veterans, what you do every day of your life.

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Jul 13, 2015

I would encourage us to have the same thing for the baby, that the first six weeks of care--exactly like the mother.

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Jul 13, 2015

His bill ought to be passed. That is just so common sense.

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Jun 22, 2015

I think without you doing that we would never have known a lot of these things, and I think it'd still been going on.

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Jun 16, 2015

You can't save enough money. I don't know if anybody ever said they have saved too much money.

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Jun 16, 2015

Twenty-nine percent of people over 55 don't have any savings at all. That is frightening when you think about it.

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Jun 16, 2015

I want to ensure that any written rule by the Department of Labor will make it easier for these investors to continue receiving high-quality retirement services from a trusted financial adviser, but this proposal fails them.

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Jun 16, 2015

We need to, and I believe this, the day I started practice we had a pension plan for every employee that was in our practice.

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