Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

American - Politician Born: October 20, 1955

Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration. Sheldon Whitehouse

Women, Path, Walk, Support, Men, Tough

We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs. Sheldon Whitehouse

Power, Health, Plant, Pollution, Pay

Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct. Sheldon Whitehouse

Money, Fool, Lie, Fraud, Others, Lying

The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans. Sheldon Whitehouse

Pollution, Humanity, Worst, May, Come

Whatever the motivation of the 'Wall Street Journal' and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial scheme to come in from the talk shows and the blogosphere and have to face the kind of an audience that a civil RICO investigation could provide. Sheldon Whitehouse

Time, Past, Face, Long, Motivation, Kind

The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business is more important to them than what's good for America. Sheldon Whitehouse

Good, Business, Science, Influence, More

The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge when those branches are corrupted or consumed by passing passions. Sheldon Whitehouse

American, Check, Up, Branches, Passing

Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes a multi-million-dollar gift to a museum receive more tax bang for his charitable buck than a middle-class family who gives to their local church? Sheldon Whitehouse

Family, Happy, People, Gift, Church, Tax

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change, Best, Pollution, Climate Change

I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt. Sheldon Whitehouse

Good, Sea, Water, People, Think, America

When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications. Sheldon Whitehouse

Heart, Death, Heart Disease, Blood, Risk

Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution. Sheldon Whitehouse

School, Pollution, Island, Air, Hard

Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country's future. Sheldon Whitehouse

Future, Children, Smart, Giving, Country

The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government. Sheldon Whitehouse

Government, Political, Special, Interest

In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner's laurel generation by generation. One way we earn it is by living our values as the world watches. Sheldon Whitehouse

Winner, Win, World, Generation, Watches

The 'Wall Street Journal' is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they have a record whenever industrial pollutants are involved. Look at the 'Journal''s commentary on acid rain, on the ozone layer, and on climate change. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change, Rain, Climate Change, Street

We are Christian and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu and none of the above. We are gay and straight. We are black, brown, white, and innumerable combinations. We are young and old, female and male, with and without disabilities, urban and rural, and liberal and conservative. Every one of us is an equal American. Sheldon Whitehouse

Black, Christian, American, Young, White

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible. Sheldon Whitehouse

History, Hope, God, Humility, Bible, Up

I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they can to get the education they need for the jobs of tomorrow. Sheldon Whitehouse

Work, Education, Tomorrow, Work Hard

Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones. Sheldon Whitehouse

Future, Health, Loved, Powerful, Care

I am gravely concerned about climate change. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change, I Am, Climate Change, Climate

Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as human speech. As a result, corporations now can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections - often in secret, without any public disclosure. Sheldon Whitehouse

Decision, Money, Influence, Speech, Now

Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change, Science, Strong, Problem, May

Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change, Colleagues, Climate Change, Like

From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates. Sheldon Whitehouse

Change, Marriage, Equality, Safety, Gun

When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on. Sheldon Whitehouse

Learning, Great, Innovation, Amazing

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