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" Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Wake Up
Reality
Time
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" 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. "
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" In the Internet economy, information is everything: The more a company knows about a consumer, the more carefully it can tailor its advertising to that customer, and the more revenue it can generate in return. "
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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
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God
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" 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. "
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" Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress. "
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Playing
Congress
Dead
" We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours. "
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Ours
Here
Work
" 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
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Future
" 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
Democracy
American
Lawyer
" Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students. "
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Best
Opportunity
Nation
" The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Government
Judicial
Political
" Any patient who has a serious illness requiring multiple doctors understands the frustration of lost medical charts, repeated procedures, or having to share the same information over and over with different doctors and nurses. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Medical
Lost
Information
" 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
Rest
You
Texas
" 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
Year
I Am
Lived
" 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
" It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Sorry
First Amendment
Fraud
" 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
" My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Fair
Influence
Father
" The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Constitution
Protection
Against
" 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
" We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs. "
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Through
Health
Plant
" We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways. "
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More
Get
Tax
" 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
" I am gravely concerned about climate change. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
I Am
Concerned
Change
" 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
" To a certain extent, platforms are platitudes that you test when you get to govern. You have to run those priorities up against the opposition and decide what's most important. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Priorities
Test
You
" Our American history reflects a long-standing tension between people and power. In fact, all government everywhere does. But our American form of government solved the problem, better than most, of moderating this tension between people and power. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
History
Government
People
" 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. "
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Women
Walk
Tough
" Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air. "
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Poison
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" The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist. "
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