Political Quotes

“as we are in the safety and security of this Chamber tonight, we should not forget that at this very moment there are young Americans who are in harm's way in Iraq. Many have been killed and others, seem like, are placed in danger and are being killed certainly on a weekly basis; and we should never forget that. This war is not over. Danger continues to exist. Some of these young people will be wounded, and they will come back to this country, and they will join the ranks of the others who have served this country. They will be America's newest veterans, many of them with terrible injuries. That is why I rise tonight to talk about the veterans, and especially about veterans health care in this country. I am increasingly concerned as I talk to veterans in my own district, and I am from the State of Ohio, where we have about 11 million citizens in the State, but well over 1 million of those are veterans. About 10 percent of all of the citizens in the State of Ohio are veterans who have served their country in the military. The facts are that this administration and this government is not doing what it should do to keep its word to our veterans and to provide them with the kind of high quality health care that they have been promised and that they are entitled to receive.”