Quotes by Sheldon Whitehouse - Page 3

I think a lot of the people who voted for Donald Trump were frustrated. And what they thought was, OK, government is broken. Therefore, we're going to send in this incendiary character. And he's just going to going to bust it all up, and we'll see what happens.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Broken
Frustrated
Bust
Donald
Donald Trump
Incendiary
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If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Chemistry
Gravity
Intellect
Physics
God Believe Earth
All-Powerful
Human Powers
Powers
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Sometimes money isn't the determinant. But it sure as hell makes a huge difference. Nobody is saying "Well, thank God we don't need to raise money any longer." It's a very, very big deal to have money, and it is a very, very big deal to have more than your opponent.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Differences
Opponents
Thank God
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Frankly, we should have an ARPA-O, an Advanced Research Projects Agency for oceans research, to match DARPA for defense and ARPA-E for energy. And we should have an Oceans and Coasts Fund to match the upland- and freshwater-directed Land and Water Conservation Fund.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Agency
Conservation
Defense
Fund
Advanced
Darpa
Frankly
Match
Oceans
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Across our small globe, dawn sweeps each morning, lighting cities and cottages, barrios and villages. Whoever and wherever you may be, you can step out into that morning sunrise and know, from our American example, that life does not have to be the way it is for you.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Cities
Dawn
Lighting
Sunrise
Each Morning
Villages
Wherever
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You can measure the warming oceans with a thermometer. You measure sea level rise with a yardstick. You can measure the dramatic increase in acidification with a simple pH test, and you can replicate what excess CO2 does to seawater in a basic high school science lab.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Co2
Dramatic
Excess
Replicate
Sea
Rise
Lab
Measure
Oceans
Thermometer
Warming
Yardstick
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At a time when the United States is handing out tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, corporate jet owners, and millionaires and billionaires, it is ludicrous that we would even be looking at Social Security and Medicare as a solution to our debt crisis.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Corporate
Corporations
Crisis
Jet
Owners
Social Security
Tax Breaks
Billionaires
Breaks
Handing
Ludicrous
Millionaires
Solution
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Trump voters are very loyal to Trump, and they don't want to come after him too soon. But, if something comes out that changes that dynamic, if the switch flips, the elevator goes straight to the basement. There's very little in terms of arms reaching out to help him.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Arms
Littles
Voters
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No one has a First Amendment right to lie to a federal agency in order to claim an improper tax status in order to avoid legal disclosure requirements on political spending and thereby receive undue tax benefits. That's a criminal false statement and possibly a fraud.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Legal
Agency
Disclosure
First Amendment
Fraud
Requirements
Amendment
Claim
Criminal
False
Receive
Statement
Status
Thereby
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Despite heated political debates on the future of our health care system, there is bipartisan agreement that health IT can be a powerful tool to transform and modernize the delivery of health care in our country. Health IT is about helping patients and their loved ones.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Agreement
Bipartisan
Delivery
Despite
Health Care
Health Care System
Loved Ones
Debates
Modernize
Patients
Powerful Tool
Transform
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We've seen too often what happens when wealthy and powerful industries gain excessive influence over the agencies that regulate them. The capture of the Minerals Management Service at the Department of Interior contributed to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Capture
Department
Management
Mexico
Minerals
Agencies
Excessive
Gain
Gulf
Industries
Interior
Regulate
Spill
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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 tobacco industry. We don't have enough information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it's all smoke and no fire. But there's an awful lot of smoke.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Activity
Allies
Conclusion
Engaged
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Smoke
Tobacco
Awful Lot
Fossil
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The 'Wall Street Journal' is quite irate that I rank them with industry front groups and cranks denying climate change. But they have a record whenever industrial pollutants are involved. Look at the 'Journal''s commentary on acid rain, on the ozone layer, and on climate change.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Acid
Climate Change
Commentary
Journal
Ozone
Rain
Wall Street Journal
Denying
Industrial
Layer
Rank
Street Journal
Wall Street
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Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes a multi-million-dollar gift to a museum receive more tax bang for his charitable buck than a middle-class family who gives to their local church?
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Big Oil
Charitable
Church
Deficit
Middle Class Family
Oil
Subsidies
Tax
Addressing
American People
Bang
Buck
Local
Museum
Receive
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I, for one - despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Sympathetic
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
Hawk
Solid
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Whatever the motivation of the 'Wall Street Journal' and other right-wing publications, it is clearly long past time for the climate denial scheme to come in from the talk shows and the blogosphere and have to face the kind of an audience that a civil RICO investigation could provide.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Denial
Investigation
Journal
Rico
Talk Shows
Wall Street Journal
Time Face Long
Scheme
Past Time
Publications
Street Journal
Wall Street
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The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is polluting our public discourse, and, of course, its carbon emissions are polluting our atmosphere and oceans - it's a triple whammy and a disgrace.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Atmosphere
Carbon
Discourse
Emissions
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Propaganda
Public Discourse
Fossil
Oceans
Polluting
Triple
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Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Air Pollution
Diesel
Engines
Hard Work
Pollution
Rhode Island
School
Buses
Communities
Island
Idling
Passed
Prohibit
Reduce
Rhode
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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 up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - thats not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Humility
Miracle
Self
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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 up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Amnesty
Arrogant
Assurance
Bible
Clean
Folly
Humility
Mess
Aligned
Clean Up
Grant
Nanny
Smug
Text
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America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do exceptional things - things like what Generals Marshall and MacArthur accomplished putting Europe and Japan back on their feet after World War II.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Japan
World War Ii
Generals
Marshall
Responsibilities
World War
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Millions upon millions of secret spending by the fossil fuel industry that was unleashed by the disastrous 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision - this money not only fuels the campaigns of many candidates; it also represents a threat to those who don't toe the polluter line on climate change.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Campaigns
Candidates
Climate
Climate Change
Court Decision
Fossil Fuel
Fuel
Supreme
Supreme Court
Unleashed
Disastrous
Fossil
Toe
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I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Air
America
Atmosphere
Clean
Clean Air
Clean Water
Emissions
Epa
Factories
Principles
Rivers
Sea
Teddy
Understand
Dumping
Watch
Good Thing
Having
Roosevelt
Stands
Teddy Roosevelt
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According to the IRS, the wealthiest 400 Americans, who earned an average of roughly $270 million in 2008, paid an average tax rate of just 18.2 percent that year. That's about the same rate paid by a single truck driver in Rhode Island. It's not right, and we need to restore fairness to our tax code.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Average
Code
Fairness
Irs
Paid
Percent
Rate
Rhode Island
Truck
Truck Driver
Tax
According
Driver
Earned
Million
Restore
Rhode
Roughly
Tax Code
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When counting on learning from innovation, there are great successes but also failures. The Wright Brothers invented the aircraft and started an amazing process of innovation, where we now have planes that carry 500 passengers. Along the way there were some silly looking vehicles that crashed early on.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Aircraft
Brother
Counting
Innovation
Passengers
Planes
Silly
Wright Brothers
Brothers
Carry
Crashed
Successes
The Wright Brothers
Vehicles
Wright
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Citizens United is a disgrace of a decision, holding that corporate money is corporate speech and entitled to the same First Amendment protection as human speech. As a result, corporations now can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence our elections - often in secret, without any public disclosure.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Corporate
Corporations
Disclosure
Entitled
First Amendment
Protection
Unlimited
Amendment
Holding
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Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Atmosphere
Carolina
Contributing
Epa
Feet
Five
Illinois
Islands
Needles
North Carolina
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Poison
Pollution
Rhode Island
States
United States
Virginia
West
West Virginia
Island
Identified
North
Operating
Rhode
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We are Christian and Jewish and Muslim and Hindu and none of the above. We are gay and straight. We are black, brown, white, and innumerable combinations. We are young and old, female and male, with and without disabilities, urban and rural, and liberal and conservative. Every one of us is an equal American.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Black
Conservative
Equal
Female
Urban
White
Young
Jewish
Above
Male
Hindu
Combinations
Disabilities
Gay Black White
Liberal
Muslim
None
Rural
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When cyclones tear up Oklahoma and hurricanes swamp Alabama and wildfires scorch Texas, you come to us, the rest of the country, for billions of dollars to recover. And the damage that your polluters and deniers are doing doesn't just hit Oklahoma and Alabama and Texas. It hits Rhode Island with floods and storms.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Alabama
Billions
Country
Damage
Dollars
Hurricanes
Oklahoma
Rhode Island
Texas
Billions Of Dollars
Floods
Island
Hits
Recover
Rhode
Storms
Swamp
Tear
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As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Crooked
Democracy
Former
Grandson
Officers
Prosecutor
Son
Banana
Represent
Places
Tried
Types
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I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Contemporary
Contemporary Society
Reassuring
Republican Party
Confirming
Drawn
Economically
Emotionally
Rewarding
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In the long term, a robust health IT network will support personalized treatment that adheres to proven best practices, and adapts to your personal health circumstances. The time will come when, whatever illness you may have, for your body type and health history, there will 'be an app for that' to keep you on your best path to wellness.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Best Practices
Circumstances
Illness
Long
Personalized
Proven
Robust
Support
Term
Treatment
Wellness
Your Body
Time Best History
App
Best Time History
Network
Practices
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I think a lot of the people who feel out of step with contemporary society or feel that they've been left back economically or feel disaffected and are drawn to the Republican Party, they are looking for a news source that will tell them something they would like to hear and then is reassuring, emotionally rewarding, and confirming. And affirming to them. So to deliver that product is pretty valuable. It's kind of like they're an insurgency and they're not getting what they need to hear from the mainstream.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Party
People
Thinking
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I, for one, despite being a pretty solid climate hawk, I am extremely sympathetic to West Virginia and its coal-country needs. I lived there for a year. I've seen it. And the same for Wyoming, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Kentucky. They all have parts of their state where that really matters. And I think that home-state constituency issue is a pretty constant one. And I think the problem of extreme lobbying by the corporate sector, which runs about $30-to-$1 compared to everybody else in the world, and the constituent aspect combines to give those industries a consistent advantage.
Sheldon Whitehouse / United States Senator
Running
Home
Country
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