Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

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

"The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen."

"Once this comes home to roost in people’s homes, in their family finances, in really harmful ways, that [will be] motivating in a way that we haven’t seen before around this issue."

"cooked up in back rooms, cloaked in fake numbers (that) loots our country (for) the least deserving people you could imagine feels (like) a crime scene."