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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. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
People
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" Make your life your work, not your talk. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Talk
Your
Life
" 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
" 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
Powerful
Management
Influence
" The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Change
Dirty
Congress
" We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Seniors
Pay
Need
" 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
" 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
" My thesis is that government is not, in fact, broken. It's just listening to the wrong people, and it's listening to all of this quiet influence. So it's a very robust operation that operates kind of under the surface. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Listening
People
Government
" We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Seen
Drag
Big
" 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
" Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Consumers
Like
Lying
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
American
Strong
Place
" 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
" Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Part
Closing
Loopholes
" 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
" 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. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Solution
Looking
Security
" Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Republican
Change
Colleagues
" Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Medical
Errors
Health
" 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
" 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
Kind
Long
Motivation
" 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. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
More
Get
Tax
" 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
" 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
" 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
Fight
Stand
See
" The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
Know
Safe
Right
" 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