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, Men, Support, Tough

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

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, Motivation, Long, Talk

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, Us

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

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, Gift, People, Happy, Church, Oil

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

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, Hard, Air

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, Judiciary, Up, Branches

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

Power, Health, Pollution, Plant, Pay

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

World, Win, Watches, Generation, Winner

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, Step, Sunrise, Small, You

Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate. Sheldon Whitehouse

Time, Colleagues, Reality, Wake Up, Week

America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II. Sheldon Whitehouse

Nature, War, World, Feet, America, Back

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

I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. Sheldon Whitehouse

Year, I Am, Matters, Lived, Same, Hawk

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

Pollution, Humanity, Worst, May, Us

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours. Sheldon Whitehouse

Work, God, Here, He, Ours

You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab. Sheldon Whitehouse

Science, Sea, Simple, School, Rise, You

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

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, Look, Rank

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

People, Broken, Government, Listening

We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share. Sheldon Whitehouse

Back, Crisis, Seniors, Need, Pay, Fair

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. Sheldon Whitehouse

Tax, Fairness, System, Rule, Our, Would

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

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. Sheldon Whitehouse

Science, Architecture, Control, Others

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