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" Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

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" Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" 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

" When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Getting past the influence of the fossil fuel industry will take courage, especially on the part of the Republican majority whom they so relentlessly bully and cajole. But we must do it. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" 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. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Society is indeed better off when we share knowledge with one another and have open debates about the issues in the public arena, with the hands and motives of the players identified. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" I am gravely concerned about climate change. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Republicans aren't cowards. Many will take the side of climate principle in a fair fight. But it is asking a lot of them to take a principled stand on climate when they don't see one corporate friend ready to help them. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" Every one of us deserves a voice that our president will hear. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" 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

" When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" 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

" Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence out of our politics and were running a democracy like the founding fathers intended. "

Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

" America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country. "

Sheldon Whitehouse