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I am gravely concerned about climate change.
Muzzling our leading scientists benefits no one.
Consumers recognize, and don't like, corporate lying.
We are here to do God's work. He's not here to do ours.
We pay for power plant pollution through higher health costs.
Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.
Protected free speech has boundaries, and one boundary is fraud.
America has long stood before the world as an exceptional country.
Regulators owned and controlled by industry are not the American way.
The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.
It is plain old-fashioned wrong when people lie and trick other people.
We must now become not just takers from the ocean, but caretakers of it.
We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.
I'm not running for the U.S. Senate because I think Lincoln Chafee is a bad man.
The oceans are a way of life. We fish; we sail; we have a robust marine economy.
The worst blows to humanity from carbon pollution may come at us from the oceans.
The dirty secret is that climate change is not really a partisan issue in Congress.
I am the exception to the rule that all senators see themselves in the Oval Office.
The Ryan budget gets rid of Medicare in 10 years and turns it into a voucher program.
My father's politics did not influence mine. In fact, we disagreed on a fair amount of stuff.
Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to Social Security and Medicare.
In many ways, the rotten effects of dark money are seen less in what we do than in what we don't do.
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.
The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.
If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal.
Narragansett Bay waters are getting warmer -- 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer in the winter since the 1960s.
The Constitution provided no protection against corporations; the Constitution has a blind spot for them.
Putting a price on carbon pollution is one of the best things we can do to stem the tide of climate change.
We cannot solve the deficit crisis on the back of our seniors. We need all Americans to pay their fair share.
Legislation to level the playing field for working families is dead on arrival in the Citizens United Congress.
Juries are the constitutional institution designed to protect ordinary citizens against the wealthy and powerful.
Most every young man either takes inspiration from his father or wishes he could. I was fortunate in that I could.
Pell Grants aren't 'welfare,' they are a gateway to opportunity for some of our nation's best and brightest students.
If you look at the casualties, the federal government isn't waging a War on Coal. If anything, coal is waging a war on us.
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.
Senators who once supported common-sense legislation have gone silent as stones under the threat of the polluters' spending.
We have seen the big loan servicers drag their feet in the Obama administration's well-intentioned mortgage modification program.
I don't believe that there is anybody who denies climate change in the Democratic caucus. Everybody accepts that it is a real problem.
Citizens United provided unprecedented political weaponry to big special interests. My personal view was it was calculated to do that.
Educating our children and giving them the skills they need to compete in a global economy is a smart investment in our country's future.
The Founding Fathers built our judicial system to withstand the special interest pressures that beset the political branches of government.
If Republicans want to defend the rights of corporations and billionaires to spend unlimited, secret money in campaigns, then they should say so.
We can reduce our deficit, and do it in a much more balanced way than sequestration, simply by fixing our tax code to get rid of needless giveaways.
It would be a sorry world in which corporations engaged in fraud could pull the screen of the First Amendment over any investigation of their scheme.
I don't think you earn the right to a message until you've earned it by having a real fight, really being willing to stand up for what you believe in.
Too many members of Congress seem willing to give corporate polluters, many of whom happen to be major political donors, a free pass to poison the air.
Health IT helps save lives now lost due to preventable medical errors, from incorrect diagnoses and needless infections to drug mix-ups and surgical mishaps.
Talking to my Senate Republican colleagues about climate change is like talking to prisoners about escaping. The conversations are often private, even furtive.
Addiction is a tough illness, and recovery from it is a hard but noble path. Men and women who walk that path deserve our support, encouragement, and admiration.
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.