Steve Buyer Quotations

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude.

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us.

For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us. For those who continue to serve, we honor their commitment. For those who return to civilian life, we honor their service.

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

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

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

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values formed in that crucible when tyranny threatened a world.

Because all of us believe and understand in the fabric of the common bond of why we call ourselves American is to care for the men and women who wear the uniform; and when they take off the uniform, we care for them when they are veterans.

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.

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.

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighting the reliance this country has on the gulf coast for our energy resources.

I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about voice. We got it wrong. It is about voice, video, and data, and that is what we have today on these cell phones.

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it will be met possibly with a protest or a demonstration.

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready to provide for our servicemembers who now defend our freedoms and our way of life.

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.

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.

The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

My great fear is that future presidents will now flaunt the law in a more egregious manner ... and that's how they'll defend impeachments in the future, ... Damage was done.

I got tendinitis in both elbows from hitting off mats,

I believe that such a transgression undermines the good order and discipline of the military, ... ... It places the nomination in doubt in the U.S. Senate.

We now have to get into the mortuary business pretty soon too,

The Army appreciates your willingness to serve the nation in Operation Iraqi Freedom, ... However, due to your high profile status as a United States representative, we are concerned that your presence would put in jeopardy your safety and the safety of those serving around you, given the current security environment in the theater of operations.

While we in the VA got all of our patients out We still have 2500 patients we still need to evacuate out of the city of New Orleans. That's being done today and tomorrow,

Those heroes, many of whom still lie entombed beneath the waters of Pearl Harbor, embody the very ideals upon which America was founded.

This 'rise to the level' has somehow become the legal cliche of this case. You've all so often heard it, and some of you have even spoken it,

The president's premeditated assault on the administration of justice must be interpreted as a threat to our system of government.

We seek to preserve the blessings of liberty for our citizens and for all those around the world who recognize the God-given right of freedom.

At no time did I provide any voter contact information to anyone nor direct anyone or have knowledge of anyone providing such material to any outside group. Period,

The VA, because we have the largest health network in the country, are equal partners in our disaster response,

This is a federal election, and the federal statute is what rules here,

It's like Eisenhower on D-Day saying I sent my battlefield commander to the beach, and whatever happened on the beach is his fault.

The use of highly fuel-efficient clean diesel engines is a mandates free way of making our existing domestic refining and oil production go further.

The VA right now has ten 250 bed hospitals part of the national response and the VA is providing a third of the medical support,

because there were other people with the experience and qualifications for the job and because of the concern over increased risk upon him and other soldiers around him.

How do you move people who refuse to move?