politician, military commander
1942
What I want veterans to know is that VA is here to care for them. VA is a good system - health care wise, safety wise - highly comparable to any other system out there. Our oversight reviews tell us that. I'm very comfortable in the quality of our system.
You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader. You can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it.
I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.
It has been very humbling and gratifying to have these men as our role models... Your generation enabled America to close out the twentieth century as the greatest nation in the history of mankind, the only remaining superpower, the world's leading economy and the world's most respected and feared military force in the world- respected by our friends and allies, feared by our adversaries.