#vet

Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#feel #gentle #gentler #hard #home

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#america #embody #founded #ideals #more

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. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#decade #faith #funding #healthcare #increased

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#commitment #eight #established #freedom #generations

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy. ↗

— Chanakya

#balanced #contentment #covetousness #disease #equal

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#anything #covet #except #nation #respect

The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it. ↗

— John Conyers

#bush #calling #democratic #democratic party #dubai

Take the veto. Bush is the first president since James Garfield in 1881 not to veto a single bill. Garfield only had six months in office; Bush has had over four years. ↗

— Jim Cooper

#bush #first #four #garfield #had

Yeah, but you need an experienced radio veteran who is a liberal advocate. And there just hadn't been any radio that did that. And so they weren't trained - they had developed all these bad habits of being objective and balanced and stuff like that. ↗

— Al Franken

#any #bad #bad habits #balanced #been

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#everything #fox #hedgehog #i #i always