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Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander. Karl Rove

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That massiveness of bureaucracy at the VA is chronic and has been chronic. Bill Pullman

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Yes, there is a story about Agent Orange, and we knew that it harmed our troops and we knew how long it was to get the medical community to accept that, the military to accept it, the VA to accept it. Christopher Shays

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Every loan that we did in the City of Detroit in the 10 years they studied - between 2005 and 2014 - were conventional FHA, VA loans with average interest rates of 6%. Dan Gilbert

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I went to elementary school in Falls Church, Va. Dana Bash

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My childhood in Arlington, Va., a middle class suburb of Washington, was uneventful. Ours was a very intellectual family, and we were encouraged to read at a very early age. David Gross

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I say we put a choice card in every veteran's hands to say, 'You choose.' You control your health care. If you want to go to the VA, which most veterans like, go to the VA. But if you want to go outside of the system, here's your choice card. You go outside of the system. David Jolly

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We have about 360,000 employees in the VA health care system. It's the largest health care system in the country. And the negative attention that's been put on VA has hurt the morale of our workforce. And so what we're trying to do is to get people to understand that we're doing great work every day. David Shulkin

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A veteran deserves the very best health care anywhere. That means sometimes, they should go out into the private sector if something's being done better than the VA. David Shulkin

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If there is evidence that an employee has broken the law, caused harm to veterans, or have violated the public trust, they should be terminated immediately. Instead, due to overly cumbersome and lengthy arbitrations as well as extensive bureaucratic red tape, VA has not been able to remove employees as quickly as we would have liked. David Shulkin

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VA is a unique national resource that is worth saving, and I am committed to doing just that. David Shulkin

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I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug. Ellen Tauscher

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My mom worked at the VA for years, so any time I can do anything to help, it's a must. Hasan Minhaj

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My mom works at the VA; she's been working at the VA for 15 plus years, and yet she's helping so many veterans coming back from brown Muslim countries, and my mom treats them. It's this weird - sometimes I feel torn. It's this dual identity. I'm so proud to be American, and at the same time, I disagree with our foreign policy. Hasan Minhaj

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It shouldn't take an emergency for this Administration to deal with the health care needs of our nation's heroes. Funding the VA and our bringing our troops home safely should never be treated as an afterthought. John Salazar

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For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive. Robert Wilkie

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I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA. Robert Wilkie

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My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA. Robert Wilkie

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When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service. Robert Wilkie

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Norman Hooten's dedication and commitment to serving his fellow veterans is what VA is all about. Robert Wilkie

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