Erin O'Toole Quotes

We know that veterans have valuable skills and experiences that are highly sought after in today's workforce.

More importantly, if you are in a position to hire, hire a veteran. They will be the best employees you have.

It's simple - veterans have received some of the best training available and want to contribute after they return to civilian life. The emergency medical training they get during their military service is in dire need.

Having served in the Forces a positive when it comes to applying for jobs. But we know some former service personnel can find the transition difficult.

I was unemployable when I got out of college.

If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

We have the Troops to Teachers program, which encourages retired military individuals to go into teaching.

I always intended to return to the private sector.

Post-military service can be a period of anxiety and uncertainty. So many men and women return and ask themselves: what now? The Labor Department is here to help answer that question with an array of programs designed to clear pathways into the middle class.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me.

I'd like to have another opportunity to serve. I believe in service. I enjoy it. I also like coming and going, you know, because I think that my private-sector life has contributed to how I think about public-sector challenges and what I do in the public sector.

If someone wants to employ me, whoever wants to employ me, I'll go and do that. I just want to work.

Well, I'd probably go for any work I could get.

Suppose, Sir, the Soldiers of our Army were all such as had served a Campaign or two against a publick Enemy; is it from hence to be inferred, that they must for ever after live idly, and be maintained at the Expense of their Country

It’s hard to have a better job than the government, where you really do have an opportunity to have a broad reaching impact. Very few private sector jobs are going to offer you that.

What is the purpose of education if not, at a minimum, to prepare people for work?

Drafted soldiers are far more likely to die in combat than long-service professionals. Military leaders know from painful experience that it takes years to produce a fully competent combat soldier.

You need a place that will be the holy grail of Army professionalism.

Our veterans have been fighting abroad for our freedom; the last thing they should have to do is fight for a job at home.

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

We should prepare our future workforce differently. It isn't just advanced STEM degrees. There are many jobs you can do without advanced degrees.

I can be happy in the private sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector.

As a country, we must come together to provide the training, certifications, and jobs that our veterans have earned and deserve.

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?

Changing the conversation about how Americans perceive veterans is really important. These are hardworking, dedicated, innovative people who deserve quality employment when they return home from their military service.