Conner Eldridge 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.

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

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

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

While we can't begin to repay the debt we owe our veterans for their brave service, we can certainly take steps to ease the physical, psychological and financial hardships they may be experiencing.

Full service connected disability and medical care [for veterans] ought to be absolutely inviolate and is.

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

We have a moral responsibility to help veterans avoid homelessness and displacement.

It is also our responsibility to fulfill our promises to our veterans, to help those in need, and to support their strength and resilience. Ensuring that we take care of them and their families is a responsibility entrusted to all of us.

I'm very concerned about the needs of our 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.

Veterans should not lose the benefits they've earned through their service due to circumstances out of their control.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

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.

Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

When they return home from serving our country, our National Guard and Reserve members shouldn't have to be confronted with red tape in order to access the benefits they've earned fighting for our country.

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.

I cannot say how touched and impressed I have been by the sight of these noble brave, and so sadly wounded men and how anxious I feel to be of use to them, and to try and get some employment for those who are maimed for life. Those who are discharged will receive very small pensions but not sufficient to live upon.

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

We watch our sons go to war, disagree with the rationale for sending them, loathe the men who ordered them to battle, and then, when the veterans come home, beg and plead with the local V.A. to ensure they have access to proper care.

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

Congress has made great strides in addressing the disparities in care, recognition, and benefits that our women veterans receive, but there is more work to be done.

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

During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.

I strongly endorse Donald Trump because we need a president that will put our veterans in front of the line rather than watch them die while in line.