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" Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Against
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" The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet. "
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" 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. "
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" We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits. "
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" The fossil fuel industry maintains a science denial operation and a political influence operation designed to do just that. What's good for their business is more important to them than what's good for America. "
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" The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe. "
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Right
" 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. "
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" Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. "
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" Every one of us deserves a voice that our president will hear. "
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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. "
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" My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff. "
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Influence
Father
" 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. "
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Spark
American
" 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 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. "
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Great
Learning
Innovation
" Not only will a carbon fee reduce carbon emissions, it will force big polluters to pay for the damage their pollution does to public health and the environment, generating billions in new revenue for the American people. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Environment
American
Health
" 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
" 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. "
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Sorry
First Amendment
Fraud
" Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way. "
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Way
American
American Way
" Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. "
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System
Some
Restore
" In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do. "
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Rotten
Money
Less
" I am gravely concerned about climate change. "
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I Am
Concerned
Change
" These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform. "
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Medical
Best
Quality
" I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man. "
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Think
Senate
Running
" 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. "
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Solution
Looking
Security
" The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science. "
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Control
Architecture
Others
" 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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Line
American
Company
" The science-denial machinery is a serious adversary, and it has a big advantage over real science: it does not need to win its dispute with real science; it just needs to create a public illusion that there is a dispute. "
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Serious
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Illusion
" Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending. "
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Gone
Who
Silent
" The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them. "
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Constitution
Protection
Against
" 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. "
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Work Hard
Work
Education
" Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for. "
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