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“If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal.”
“Climate change may not be the most important issue to every American, but strong majorities do consider it a major problem, and they aren't likely to take seriously a candidate who denies the science and who is plainly in the pocket of the polluters.”
“The power the fossil fuel industry exerts over Congress is polluting American democracy, the propaganda it emits through its front groups is polluting our public discourse, and, of course, its carbon emissions are polluting our atmosphere and oceans - it's a triple whammy and a disgrace.”
“Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.”
“In the Internet economy, information is everything: The more a company knows about a consumer, the more carefully it can tailor its advertising to that customer, and the more revenue it can generate in return.”
“Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.”
“It's pretty clear that Americans have a strong interest in knowing who's trying to influence their vote in elections.”
“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.”
“We would like the rest of the world to look up to American democracy. So when there is this kind of folly taking place, it makes it difficult for other rational nations to look up to American democracy.”
“Is keeping Big Oil happy with subsidies from the American people more important than addressing our deficit? Should a billionaire who makes a multi-million-dollar gift to a museum receive more tax bang for his charitable buck than a middle-class family who gives to their local church?”
“America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country.”
“In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.”
“The bottom line is this: A private company and/or its industry allies should not knowingly lie to the American people about the harms that are caused by its product.”
“I suspect that a lot of the frustration people feel about government would feel a lot better if we had corporate influence out of our politics and were running a democracy like the founding fathers intended.”
“Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.”
“I think people really understand that clean air and clean water and not having factories dumping their emissions into the atmosphere and into the rivers and into the sea has been a very good thing for America. EPA stands watch for very important principles that go all the way back to Teddy Roosevelt.”
“We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.”
“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.”
“Every one of us deserves a voice that our president will hear.”
“When I deliver the message to a cross section of Rhode Island that democracy is broken because special interests have relentless power - which prevents politicians from compromising despite popular support on an issue - I don't have any pushback.”