Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man. — 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
Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress. — 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
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
I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Donald Trump disproved the notion that there is a direct dollar-for-dollar correlation between how much money you had in your traditional war… — 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
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
