Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"Think what you could build and design and invent and create with six billion hours of human economic activity."

"It would be great to have also a high-speed rail moment, and there is no place that is more important than in the Northeast."

"You have been to Rhode Island to visit Senator Reed and myself and you are aware of our circumstances, how difficult the State budget is there, how difficult our unemployment situation is there."

"We were the leader in the world... and now it is clearly over in Asia."