26 Quotes by Paul Rieckhoff

Everything's on the vet. It's on you to come forward, you to push the paper, you to seek the treatment.

The study confirms what we've heard from our members for the last two years -- that mental health issues and (post-traumatic stress disorder) are among the No. 1 issues facing Iraq veterans.

People should be paying attention to it, because I think it really could be the tip of the iceberg.

People don't feel comfortable getting mental health care, necessarily, because they're worried that their friends are going to think they're unstable or they're crazy.

Now I think the public opinion is starting to change, and people are understanding that the guys who've been in Washington don't seem to have a good handle on it,

The bottom line is that Donald Rumsfeld and the Defense Department are failing soldiers again.

It just became an accepted part of the culture. If you were National Guard or Reserve, or NCOs, noncommissioned officers, you were going to spend a lot of money out of your pocket.

It just became an accepted part of the culture,

I wanted to be able to call bullshit on some of these guys. OK, Bill O'Reilly, OK Al Franken: 'What do you really know about infantry tactics? 'Have you ever had to walk through bodies?