Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"We as responsible Members of Congress should not be basing public policy on eccentric fringe views."

"If you are an accountant, and you are doing the books for a family or for a business, you have to look at two sides of the ledger."

"If you look at what happened in early 2010 that might explain why it suddenly ended, you find a Supreme Court decision called Citizens United that allowed unlimited corporate money, unlimited billiona..."

"I contend that the costs on our side of the ledger actually outweigh the costs of the other side of the ledger in pure economic value by a lot."