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
If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Republicans aren't cowards. Many will take the side of climate principle in a fair fight. But it is asking a lot of… — 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
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
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
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
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
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say… — 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
Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare. — 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
