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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
#Men
#Service
#Unique
#Walk
#Women
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.
- Robert Wilkie
#Me
#Opinions
#Pay
#People
#Work
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.
- Robert Wilkie
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#Family
#Listening
#Order
#Walk
If we don't get a hold of what we owe Americans who are providing services to our veterans, then the entire system collapses.
- Robert Wilkie
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#Owe
#System
#Veterans
#Who
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.
- Robert Wilkie
#Family
#History
#I Am
#Live
#Past
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.
- Robert Wilkie
#American
#Lawyers
#Say
#Service
#Up
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
#Experience
#Father
#Home
#Life
#Mind
I welcome a scrutiny of my entire record.
- Robert Wilkie
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#Record
#Scrutiny
#Welcome
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.
- Robert Wilkie
#Acting
#Care
#Door
#Medical
#Quality
I experienced what can never be duplicated in the private sector - the communal aspect of VA.
- Robert Wilkie
#Aspect
#Communal
#Never
#Private
#VA
As part of any new leadership organization, you come in with a team. You come in to assess. You come in to rearrange.
- Robert Wilkie
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#Leadership
#New
#Organization
#Team
The last thing I will pay attention to is any of the usual Washington back and forth.
- Robert Wilkie
#Attention
#Back
#Last
#Pay
#Will
For the VA to thrive as an integrated health care network, it must be agile and adaptive.
- Robert Wilkie
#Care
#Health Care
#Health
#Must
#Thrive
I am humbled by the prospect of serving those who have borne the battle, those American men and women who have sacrificed so much.
- Robert Wilkie
#American
#Battle
#I Am
#Men
#Women
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.
- Robert Wilkie
#Anniversary
#Battle
#Bible
#War
#Wife
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