Cindy Hyde-Smith Quotes

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.

Our veterans, and especially our women veterans, need our support and the support of one another.

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

I take care of military families. Their sacrifices are very real.

I want people to take the initiative to find veterans that need help, veterans that are suffering and in need of assistance reintegrating from combat back into society, into normal family lives and jobs. We need to take a real 'boots on the ground' approach to helping veterans in need.

I think our veterans certainly deserve and have earned the best health care in the world.

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

Respecting our veterans includes providing them the ways and means they so desperately need to reintegrate into our lives and serve us again as productive members of our civilian community.

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

I'm trying to raise awareness for veterans.

We must make sure that all of our returning servicemembers are honored and taken care of, no matter the wounds they bear.

The responsibility for keeping our commitments to veterans falls on the federal government.

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.

Veterans' issues have always spoken to me.

Caring for our veterans should be non-negotiable. And it definitely should not be affected by playing the same old Washington party politics game.

I want people to get involved and to connect with veterans.

It is essential that we provide the best possible care for our wounded and disabled veterans.

While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

Caring for our veterans is the duty of a grateful nation. Unfortunately, the Bush administration and congressional Republicans have not lived up to this duty.

For many of the brave men and women who have fought on the front lines, returning home means trying to navigate a complicated and bureaucratic Veterans Administration benefits system.

When you join the army, you are asked to lay down your life for your country. That is a tremendous oath to take. In return, a good country should offer that soldier every possible means it can to allow that soldier to stay alive and, upon return, healthy - both mentally and physically.

We need to make sure our veterans have health care not just when they come home but throughout their lives.

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

Our disabled veterans earned their benefits by serving our great nation, and we must protect them and their families, especially during financial hardship.

I had met many wounded veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center when I was researching my 2009 novel 'The Turnaround,' and I continue to be very interested in how returning servicemen and women deal with their new lives back home and how they're treated by America.