Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

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.

Most of the Republican Party denies climate change and has fought all efforts to address it.

You know, I get frustrated with our country's administration, which is really the people who are not acknowledging global warming. I mean, it's accepted by scientists around the world, scientists in our country and it's accepted by every country around the world with the exception of the United States.

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.

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

When I was sworn in, we had Republican-sponsored climate-change bills all over the place. You had John McCain running for President in 2008 on a strong climate platform. You could see American democracy actually starting to work at solving a difficult problem.

It's crazy that we happen to have a country where it depends on what political party you are in whether you believe in climate change or not.

When it comes to climate change and the environment, President Donald Trump is plain wrong.

The Obama administration and its allies, such as the Sierra Club, tried to kill coal because of their obsession with global warming.

Justin Trudeau certainly understands climate science, as do his ministers. But they're refusing to take action on it because of short-term political concerns.

I don't need to be lectured by the Pope about climate change.

George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans can't even acknowledge that climate change is human caused or real because of the outside spending in our elections.

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.

There isn't a political price to be paid yet for doing nothing. People need to get upset with President Bush. People need to get upset with their Congressmen.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

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

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.

I think Al Gore has done a great service in making global warming cool. He's basically taken it from a nerdy, almost ignored issue to making it what it is - namely, a problem.

We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate for young people and future generations and all life on the planet.

Now, I do not, on any level, possess the expertise to argue about the science of anthropological global warming. Nor do you, most likely. This certainly doesn't mean an average citizen has the duty to do the lock step.

A knowledgeable and courageous U.S. president could help enormously in leading the world's nations toward saving the climate.

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

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 idea that global warming is the most important problem facing the world is total nonsense and is doing a lot of harm.