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" Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Wishes
Young
Man
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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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Fair
Influence
Father
" From lying about climate change, to undermining programs that make up our social safety net, to opposing laws that reduce gun violence, to fighting marriage equality, the Kochs' tentacles infiltrate all parts of America's public debates. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Safety
Marriage
Gun
" 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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Our
Responsibility
Parents
" 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
Lie
Tax
Right
" 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. "
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People
Think
Step
" 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
" 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
" 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
History
Health
Body
" 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
" I believe that the role of president of the United States is vastly different from the role of candidate and that the Donald Trump of the campaign will not succeed as president. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Role
Will
Believe
" 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
" Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Price
Tide
Change
" It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Old-Fashioned
Wrong
Trick
" 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
Hope
Bible
God
" America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Country
America
Long
" 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
" Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Best
Opportunity
Nation
" 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
" We'll never move beyond oil until we stop rewarding oil companies with ridiculous taxpayer subsidies and start making them pay for the harm they cause our families and our planet. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Ridiculous
Never
Start
" 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. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Serious
Win
Illusion
" We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Through
Health
Plant
" 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 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
" 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
" 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
" The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Change
Dirty
Congress
" 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
" 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
" Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Security
Stand
Strong
" Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
System
Some
Restore