If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees' careful work to open American… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Once people know that you can spend the money and that you're willing to spend the money and that you're set up… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
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 Copy Share
If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it's funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers. This is… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share
