Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up."

"Turns out, none of [the science] really matters while the operation is controlling things in Congress."

"To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is."

"That sense of political listlessness quietly sinks in and informs the political refrain: Republicans are shameless, Democrats are spineless."