Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

There's some politicians who still seriously believe that we haven't got global warming.

Global warming is socialism in drag.

The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.

George W. cares as much about climate change as you would expect from a Texas oilman.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.

Rush Holt would be a fine senator. He's an actual physicist, which is neat. He cares very strongly about global warming, which is probably the single most pressing issue of our era.

Global warming is a political issue. It is as much a political issue to the left as abortion is. It's as big a political issue as health care is.

The whole global warming thing is created to destroy America's free enterprise system and our economic stability.

The biggest polluters have a back door into the policy making process of the White House.

There are those who say that climate change is a hoax, a concoction of radical environmentalists and a liberal media. That is simply hogwash.... To ignore and dismiss the threat of climate change to the economy and the environment is like insisting the earth is flat.

The science is clear. The economics is clear. As usual, the politics is the problem.

Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible.

... We've laid the groundwork to protect our planet. But the resulting opportunities can be seized only if the next president follows the science, recognizes the dangers of doing nothing, and musters the political will to address the threat.

The American Republican Party is the last political bastion of the fossil fuel industry - now so in tow to the fossil fuel industry that it cannot face up to the realities of carbon pollution and climate change.

The queue of activists, interest groups, and ordinary people wringing their hands over what a President Donald Trump might do in office is long, and environmentalists are at the front of the line.

The climate is changing, and anyone who disagrees is, in my view, still in denial.

If the Pope plans to spend the majority of his time advocating for flawed climate change policies, then I will not attend.

I think we ought to take Al Gore, put him on an iceberg, and put him way out there.

The reality of climate change is a stupid thing to argue about.

Gore's problem is that the issues are all on his side.

There's no shortage of Democrats who are at least as committed as Schwarzenegger to reducing greenhouse gases.

Well they do have a use, but we should never believe that any international conference is going to suddenly solve problems like the condition of the global environment.

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.

The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.

Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.