Sheldon Whitehouse

How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Make your life your work, not your talk.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

To be clear, I don't know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The Heartland Institute is about as biased as they come, and it's funded by the likes of Exxon and the Koch brothers.…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

A lot of the Citizens United problem could be solved if we knew where the money came from for all these ads.…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

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

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

Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.

— Sheldon Whitehouse

I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying.

— Sheldon Whitehouse