America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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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

Addiction, Deserve, Recovery

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

Been, Atmosphere, Very

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

Country, Need, Compete

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

Death, Cause, Smallest

Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does to public health and the environment, generating billions in new revenue for the American people. Sheldon Whitehouse

Big, Fee, Damage

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

Sunrise, Small, American

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

Brothers, Some, Vehicles

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

Diesel, Works, Prohibit

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

Humility, Folly, Very

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

Country, Floods, Damage

When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads. Sheldon Whitehouse

Part, Political Debate

Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution. Sheldon Whitehouse

Sophisticated, Harm, Funding

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

Chemistry, Reason, Laws

The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. Sheldon Whitehouse

Militia, Fanatics, Obama

In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness. Sheldon Whitehouse

Best, Treatment, Proven

I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it. Sheldon Whitehouse

Country, I Think, Very

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

Father, Young, Could

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, Laws, Some

When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback. Sheldon Whitehouse

Deliver, Section, Prevents

We'll never move beyond oil until we stop rewarding oil companies with ridiculous taxpayer subsidies and start making them pay for the harm they cause our families and our planet. Sheldon Whitehouse

Move, Rewarding, Making

I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president. Sheldon Whitehouse

United States, Donald, Trump

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

Denial, Other, Scheme

If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us. Sheldon Whitehouse

War, Government, Federal

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

Dedication, Committee, Saw

Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund. Sheldon Whitehouse

Agency, Projects, Advanced

America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country. Sheldon Whitehouse

World, Country, Before

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