Top 41 Whitehouse Quotes
#1. The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different
Van Jones
#2. I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.
Thurston Moore
#3. Along with my colleagues Mark Warner and Sheldon Whitehouse, I have been working to end the process of secret holds, which is when senators anonymously block legislation or nominations without explanation.
Claire McCaskill
#4. Raw, freezing magic detonated from her outstretched hand with the sound of a thousand thunderclaps.
Sam Whitehouse
#5. As he hurtled through the air Simon saw the boiling emerald fire hit his protective spell and explode into sickly green sparks, inches from where Falamir was still crouched, oblivious to the chaos unfolding around him.
Sam Whitehouse
#6. I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#8. How arrogant - how very far from humility - would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly - that's not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#10. When we breathe it in, soot can interfere with our lungs and increase the risk of asthma attacks, lung cancer and even premature death. The smallest particles can pass into the blood stream and cause heart disease, stroke and reproductive complications.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#11. Don't condemn yourself or lose heart when you sometimes fail to measure up to your own principles; instead, get back up, embrace the imperfection of your own humanity, and go back with confidence and energy to your pursuit. - MARCUS AURELIUS
Sheldon Whitehouse
#12. The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program,
Sheldon Whitehouse
#13. ...I told the taxi driver the story of what happened the last time we went to the airport. They both laughed, reminding me that I could talk when I was in the mood. My obstacles were often my own.
David Whitehouse
#14. The law, right now, permits companies that close down American factories and offices and move those jobs overseas to take a tax deduction for the costs associated with moving the jobs to China or India or wherever.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#15. Time had erased me a little, rubbed me out. I had faded like a photograph buried under soil. I was tanned and older, weathered and experienced and fat. I was what we all become, a by-product of the torture of ourselves.
David Whitehouse
#16. Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer
4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#17. Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#18. Trapped in the bureaucracy nightmare, real families suffer when the big banks and their servicers force foreclosures. The emotional toll on children packing up their rooms and on parents struggling to find a temporary roof is a deep one.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#19. Forgiveness is more than words ... it is a state of being, and if forgiveness is to be anything more than a superficial offering, then, psychological, emotional, and spiritual ground must be cleared in order that the act of forgiveness may be properly rooted, and, therefore, lasting.
Bill Whitehouse
#20. The ecstasy of seeing her versus the agony of losing her, a million births and a million deaths.
David Whitehouse
#21. I think that it's very, very hard for the NRA to continue to defend the position that people who are on the terrorist watch list should be allowed to buy firearms in this country. That's their position. I don't know how they stand by it.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#22. When Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell first proposed the grants that now bear his name, he envisioned a way to help students attend our country's wonderful colleges and universities, so they could share in the American Dream.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#23. Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#24. The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#25. Everything changed for Simon Falke the first time he fell through the fire.
Sam Whitehouse
#26. Taking Morgana with it, the lightning arced back through the clouds; leaving behind nothing but the last echoing remains of her scream.
Sam Whitehouse
#28. I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.
Mary Whitehouse
#29. We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased.
David Whitehouse
#30. Rhode Island works hard to reduce air pollution in our communities. We passed laws to prohibit cars and buses from idling their engines and to retrofit school buses with diesel pollution controls. But there is only so much a single state can do, particularly against out-of-state pollution.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#31. If we believe in an all-powerful God, then we must then believe that God gave us this Earth, and we must in turn believe that God gave us its laws of gravity, of chemistry, of physics. We must also believe that God gave us our human powers of intellect and reason.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#32. What if you knew, now, that you wouldn't leave anything behind. That you couldn't leave anything behind. That no one will remember you, and no one will have anything to remember you by. That you are, in fact, just someone who was there, and that's it.
David Whitehouse
#33. We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#34. The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#35. When you don't have accountability, there's no limit to the things that people will say. One of the restraints on the vitriol and the filth that so often is part of the American political debate is that candidates have to stand by their ads.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#36. Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years hardly a week went by without a sniping reference to me. And he gave access to anyone who was prepared to say anything morally subversive.
Mary Whitehouse
#37. Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.
David Whitehouse
#38. The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups, it is unbearable to them that President Barack Obama should exist.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#39. Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we hold dear.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#40. These core principles - helping patients, preventing medical errors, promoting best practices and improving quality - are the reasons that health IT is featured in both the 2012 Republican platform and 2012 Democratic platform.
Sheldon Whitehouse
#41. We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.
Sheldon Whitehouse
