Democracy Quote by 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 and clean…

— 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 protection as…

— 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 as the…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

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

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

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 furtive.

— Sheldon Whitehouse