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" Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Women
Walk
Tough
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" If everyone on the Court always voted for the prosecution against the defendant, for the corporation against the plaintiffs, and for the government against the condemned, a vital spark of American democracy would be extinguished. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Government
Spark
American
" As a Senator from Rhode Island, I wish that once - just once - the fossil fuel industry and their paid-for PR machine would concede that burning their product causes real harm to other people. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Island
Harm
Wish
" I've met students across Rhode Island who rely on Pell Grants. They work hard, play by rules, and are doing everything they can to get the education they need for the jobs of tomorrow. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Work Hard
Work
Education
" Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Real
Children
Find
" I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Change
Believe
Climate Change
" 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
Sunrise
Life
You
" When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Stand
Political
People
" 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
Happy
American
Family
" Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Way
American
American Way
" Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
System
Some
Restore
" 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
Hard
Air
Island
" 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
Earth
God
Physics
" The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the harms that are caused by its product. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Line
American
Company
" Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Personal
Political
Special
" Fossil fuel companies and their allies are funding a massive and sophisticated campaign to mislead the American people about the environmental harm caused by carbon pollution. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
People
American
Environmental
" America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Country
America
Long
" 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
Broken
People
Government
" When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Death
Risk
Cause
" We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
American
Rest
World
" 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
Power
Democracy
Congress
" We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Ours
Here
Work
" 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
Money
Speech
Influence
" 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
Christian
Gay
White
" The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Know
Safe
Right
" If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Republicans
Because
Losing
" 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
Poison
Pollution
Feet
" Fraud investigations punish those who lie, knowing that they are lying, intending to fool others, and do it for money. No one should be too big to answer for that conduct. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Fool
Fraud
Knowing
" Make your life your work, not your talk. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Talk
Your
Life
" 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 the same group that took out billboard space to compare people who understand climate change to the Unabomber. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
People
Change
Understand
" 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
Water
Land
Defense