Mikie Sherrill Quotes

Taking care of our veterans is one of my top priorities, and I am especially concerned on behalf of our women veterans.

We must keep the promises and commitments we've made to our military veterans by ensuring needed services and care are always available and delivered in a timely fashion.

President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system that cares for their wounds and ensures that they have an opportunity to succeed.

I want women to have more access to quality care, and the access to healthcare for women is not through Planned Parenthood; it is through community health centers across the state.

I'm very concerned about the needs of our veterans.

Congress has an obligation to ease the challenges our veterans face when they come home and return to civilian life.

I'm grateful for the opportunity to return to the Veterans' Affairs Committee and continue working to ensure that every veteran in America gets the care, support and opportunities they've earned.

You can bet I will work with anyone in either party to fight for our veterans and their families, and I will make sure they get the attention and care they deserve.

The first responsibility that we have to our veterans is to make sure those that need urgent care are getting care on time.

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

When the health of a woman is involved I think the government has to be respectful.

Veterans should not have to fight for the benefits that they have already earned.

America’s veterans deserve a strong VA, not an outsourcing voucher.

As we look at the many problems we face in treating our veterans in a manner befitting their service and sacrifice, it's time we commit ourselves as a nation to applying the kind of resources and military precision necessary to finally make things right.

I have been fighting to protect women's healthcare and reproductive rights for decades.

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.

I believe that in New York, we must have one set of rules for everyone - and that means women cannot be unfairly denied health coverage.

We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.

Our Committee should be focusing on real priorities - improving health care, combating climate change, creating jobs and making products safer - not attacking Planned Parenthood and undermining women's access to critical services.

I would like to see both parties aggressively compete for the women's vote and talk about what they will do to unleash the economic power of women, to protect women's health, to provide the right policies that provide for real family stability and real family values.

When is not a good time to speak up for our vets and support them in any way that we can?

'Whole Women's Health' made it very clear that poor women were no longer going to be left out.