#disabled

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life. ↗

— John Olver

#america #battle #before #disabled #emotional

I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything. ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#am #any #been #development #disabled

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#citizens #community #disabled #hispanic #hispanic community

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. ↗

— Barack Obama

#criterion #disabled #empathy #gay #got

When Medicare was created for senior citizens and America 's disabled in 1965, about half of a senior's health care spending was on doctors and the other half on hospitals. ↗

— Dennis Hastert

#america #care #citizens #created #disabled

You go, well you can't joke about race. Well if you're from a different race and that's your experience of the world and you want to talk about that, then fine. Or you can't talk about disability, but disabled comics can talk about that. ↗

— Jimmy Carr

#comics #different #disability #disabled #experience

There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#amount #better #disabled #fact #geared

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old. ↗

— Laura San Giacomo

#becoming #cerebral #computer #disabled #does

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization. ↗

— Chen Guangcheng

#disabled #how #measure #society #treats

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#comes #disability #disabled #illinois #list