Quotes by Robert Wilkie - Page 1

I welcome a scrutiny of my entire record.
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Scrutiny
Welcome
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The last thing I will pay attention to is any of the usual Washington back and forth.
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Pay Attention
Usual
Forth
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For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.
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Adaptive
Integrated
Thrive
Health Must Care
Agile
Va
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I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.
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Aspect
Private Sector
Communal
Duplicated
Experienced
Private
Sector
Va
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Norman Hooten's dedication and commitment to serving his fellow veterans is what VA is all about.
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Commitment
Dedication
Serving
Fellow
Norman
Va
Veterans
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As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.
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Assess
Rearrange
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While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.
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Honor
Student
In The Past
Soldiers
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I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure the VHA is fully funded.
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Department
Privatization
Affairs
Veterans
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If we don't get a hold of what we owe Americans who are providing services to our veterans, then the entire system collapses.
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Providing
Owe
Veterans
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I learned at a very early age, listening to those around my family, that in order to be a commander, you had to walk your post.
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Commander
Early Age
Post
Very Early Age
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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.
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Facility
Men And Women
Military Service
Men Women Walk
Converse
Women Men Walk
Va
Veterans
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I am humbled by the prospect of serving those who have borne the battle, those American men and women who have sacrificed so much.
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Battle
Men And Women
Serving
Men Women I Am
American Men
Borne
Humbled
Women Men Battle
Prospect
Sacrificed
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Constant rotation, based on a 19th century Army model, prevents spouses from putting down roots and gaining meaningful deployment.
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Army
Constant
Deployment
Meaningful
Roots
Rotation
Based
Model
Gaining
Prevents
Putting
Spouses
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I have been privileged to work for some of the most high-powered people in town. They pay me for my opinions, and I give those to them.
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Pay
Privileged
Work Me People
Give
Opinions
Town
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Many of the issues I encountered as acting secretary were not with the quality of medical care but with getting our veterans through the door to reach that care.
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Medical Care
Secretary
Medical Quality Care
Encountered
Veterans
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When an American veteran comes to VA, it is not up to him to employ a team of lawyers to get VA to say yes. It is up to VA to get the veteran to yes, and that is customer service.
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Team
Veteran
Customer
Customer Service
Employ
Service
Va
Yes
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The Bible that I will take my oath on reminds me of the 100th anniversary of the end of the war to end all wars. It was a Bible taken into battle by my wife's grandfather who had probably never ventured beyond three or four counties in North and South Carolina.
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Anniversary
Battle
Carolina
Grandfather
Oath
South Carolina
Counties
Reminds
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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.
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Agonizing
Army
Combat
Hospitals
Recovery
Vietnam
Life Experience Home
Returned
Va
Weighed
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