Political Quotes

Sheldon Whitehouse

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Sheldon Whitehouse is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitehouse has focused on a range of issues including environmental protection, healthcare reform, and campaign finance reform. He has been a vocal advocate for addressing climate change and has worked to promote policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting natural resources. Whitehouse has also been involved in efforts to reform the political campaign finance system, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in political donations.

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Jul 30, 2025

Even as the lawless Emil Bove appears to have misled the committee about multiple, credible, backstopped allegations of misconduct, this body has sunk to simply being a partisan rubber stamp for President Trump.

commondreams.org
Jul 29, 2025

isn't over, even when subservient Senate Republicans ignore another whistleblower and shove this character through their new-low.

commondreams.org
Jul 17, 2025

The thing that's particularly dangerous about it is that this is probably a test case.

commondreams.org
Jul 17, 2025

When they’re ramrodding this very troubled, very dangerous nominee through, and blasting through committee rules as they’re doing it, that’s a bad combination.

huffpost.com
Jul 14, 2025

while I’m usually delivering fairly grim news about how the dirty deal went down, it’s founded in an optimism that when you know how the dirty deal was done, you know how to go back and undo it.

slate.com
Jul 14, 2025

It was done. And so it can be undone.

slate.com
Jul 14, 2025

This was done. It can be undone.

slate.com
Jul 11, 2025

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.

motherjones.com
Jul 11, 2025

How do you have an issue that you win 74 [percent] to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?

motherjones.com
Jul 11, 2025

The good news is that the American people hate dark money with a passion, and they hate it just as much, if not more, in districts that went for Trump as in districts that went for Biden.

motherjones.com
Jul 11, 2025

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.

motherjones.com
Jul 11, 2025

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

motherjones.com

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