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

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, Innovation, Great, Amazing

A courtroom is supposed to be a place where the status quo can be disrupted - even upended - when the Constitution or laws may require, where the comfortable can be afflicted and the afflicted find some comfort, all under the shelter of the law. Sheldon Whitehouse

Constitution, Law, Place, Comfort, Find

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, Skills

When I was first elected to the Senate, I was fortunate to be appointed to the Intelligence Committee. There, I saw up close the dedication and commitment of the men and women of our intelligence agencies. Sheldon Whitehouse

Women, Commitment, Men, Dedication, Up

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, Bible, Humility, Up

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, America, Think

Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you. Sheldon Whitehouse

Life, Morning, Sunrise, Step, American

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

My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface. Sheldon Whitehouse

Listening, Government, Broken, Influence

If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason. Sheldon Whitehouse

God, Believe, Physics, Earth, Chemistry

Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of government solved the problem, better than most, of moderating this tension between people and power. Sheldon Whitehouse

History, Power, Government, Problem

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, Island, Pollution, Air, Single

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

American, Black, Christian, Gay, White

Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified. Sheldon Whitehouse

Knowledge, Society, Hands, Better, Open

When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms. Sheldon Whitehouse

Texas, Rest, Doing, You, Island, Country

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens. Sheldon Whitehouse

Character, People, Government, Broken

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

Health, Power, Plant, Pollution, Through

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, Care, Powerful, Loved

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, Motivation, Face, Long, Kind

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

Humanity, Worst, Pollution, Us, May

Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for. Sheldon Whitehouse

Responsibility, Parents, Democracy, Died

According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code. Sheldon Whitehouse

Truck, Fairness, Island, Need, Tax, Year

Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could. Sheldon Whitehouse

Father, Man, Young Man, Young, Wishes

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, Republican, Talking

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, Tide, Pollution, Price

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