If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The Founding Fathers set up the American judiciary as a check on the excesses of the elected branches and as a refuge… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We are Christian and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu and none of the above. We are gay and straight. We are black,… — 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
Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax… — 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
If the American people make their voices heard and put enough pressure on Congress, we can restore fairness in our economic system,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought,… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the… — 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 Image
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 Image
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
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 Image
