I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
In the international contest of ideologies, it is not assured that ours will win; we have to earn the winner's laurel generation… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over,… — 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
America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country. — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any… — 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
