Sheldon Whitehouse : (7)

" The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry – now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change. " - Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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

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

" 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

" The dreadful decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission was the culmination of the Republican appointees’ careful work to open American politics to corporate influence. " - Sheldon Whitehouse

" If Republicans start losing their seats because they’re climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal. " - Sheldon Whitehouse

" 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