Joe Sestak Quotes

To honor our national promise to our veterans, we must continue to improve services for our men and women in uniform today and provide long overdue benefits for the veterans and military retirees who have already served.

When one joins the military, he or she is promised health care for life. So we need to make sure that happens.

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on military aspects, but character development. Whether it's the honor code, or the interactions you have, both with the cadet leadership and the academy leadership, every place you are is a character test.

By boosting oversight and accountability, we can empower the VA in its core mission of helping the men and women who have served our country.

Simply expanding Medicaid does not improve health care outcomes. In Louisiana, instead we're helping people getting better paying jobs so they can provide for their own health care.

I think the United States and the secretary of State should be concerned about the poverty in this country - people without health insurance. The United States should stop being the empire and be concerned about other countries. You've got to be more worried about your own people.

It is a mistake to separate learning for work and for community and personal development.

It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

I feel that a period of service to the nation would be good for all of us, though I hope it will not be a purely military period. I have a great appreciation for the need for discipline and basic training in military methods, but above all, I believe we must develop the realization of every individual's responsibility in a democracy for his government. To me any period of training should stress this very clearly and should include service to the community. I believe both boys and girls should receive such training.

When someone has to go to the hospital because they don't have insurance - and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether - but when someone needs health care, and they don't have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.

You have to look at areas you want to get better at, both in yourself and as a team.

The best thing you can do is learn from those mistakes so that you continue to get better. That's the management style or leadership style I believe in, which is push people to their limit such that they can become better than they thought they could be. That certainly has helped me.

That was something I probably had to go through, a learning curve in terms of trying to develop into the captain I want to be.

I may not have served myself, but I grew up witnessing service, and it was perhaps my most foundational experience. For a little background, I'm what's called a brat in military circles.

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.

We were rugged individualists in the Navy, but we all had health care.

I worked on becoming a better person and nurturing what I've been blessed with, improving my skills and taking care of my health and beauty.

I can go further and faster with someone coaching me than I can on my own.

The more seriously you take your growth, the more seriously your people will take you.

A job training center is not gonna train anybody for the future. What trains somebody for the future is education and passion and desire.

I think you're still the only person sharp enough to sharpen someone like me.

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

It doesn't hurt to get more education.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness.

A man must first govern himself ere he is fit to govern a family; and his family ere he be fit to bear the government of the commonwealth.