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 10, 2025

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

commondreams.org
Jul 10, 2025

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

thenation.com
Jul 10, 2025

If you're always meeting voters where they are or were, they'll begin to notice that you never have anything new to say, that they never learn anything from you, that you're not a leader but a follower.

commondreams.org
Jul 10, 2025

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

commondreams.org
Jul 10, 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.

thenation.com
Jul 10, 2025

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

thenation.com
Jul 10, 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.

thenation.com
Jul 10, 2025

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

thenation.com
Jul 10, 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.

thenation.com
Jul 2, 2025

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.

commondreams.org
Jun 25, 2025

We have an individual who is here seeking confirmation to one of the highest judicial offices in the land.

newrepublic.com

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