Sheldon Whitehouse Quotes

Big business does not want honest government.

The FBI has always supported big business and big government.

The railroad men did not hesitate to dominate government where they could.

We’d be crazy to let corporations get anywhere near our government. The only reason they want to influence government is to plunder—to steal from children.

Donalt Trump has drained the swamp right into his Cabinet.

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

The corporate lobby in Washington is basically designed to stifle all legislative activity on behalf of consumers.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists.

The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.

Even though the Koch brothers' businesses put 4.4 million people at risk with pollutants, the Kochs have poured millions into lobbyists' coffers and political contributions to ensure their bottom line stays unchanged by the most basic safety precaution.

I ask the vice president to stop dodging the issue with legalese, and acknowledge his continued ties with Halliburton to the American people.

Corporations are poisoning our air and water while at the same time lining the pockets of elected officials with political contributions.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

Industries who profit by the rape of our environment see to it that legislators friendly to their attitudes are elected, and that bureaucrats of similar attitude are appointed.

The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter [immigrants], but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

We have needed … reforms for quite some time. But because of collusion between politics and business, nothing happened.

President Bush is a corporation in the White House masquerading as a human being.

Unfortunately, public officials are largely controlled by the very corporations against which they should proceed.

One party is under the ironclad control of Wall Street and the other one caters to Wall Street.

The financial firms—the same ones who were involved in the 2008 meltdown—are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And frankly, they own the place.

The financial interests have captured the government institutions.

The government protects corporations, not people and other animals.

From drug companies to health insurers to Wall Street banks, big corporations are spending millions to buy influence in Washington and drown out the voices of regular people.