Richard Shelby Quotes (74 Quotes)

I plan to work with the Senate leadership and my colleagues to develop a comprehensive approach to address and ultimately pay for this reconstruction effort. I am willing to do my part, but it is essential that we all reexamine and reprioritize our spending as a result of this natural disaster.

There were more failures of intelligence on his watch as director of the CIA than any other director of Central Intelligence in our history, ... I have long felt that, while an honorable man, he lacked the critical leadership necessary for our intelligence community to effectively operate, particularly in the post-911 world.

I believe the continuation of subsidized rates, particularly for properties that have suffered repetitive losses and those that are vacation homes, represents a financial drain on the flood insurance fund while encouraging families to remain living in harms way,

Most banks can sell your information-your balances, your address, your Social Security number-without your permission. That's violating your confidentiality. That's breaking your trust. I think it's important to change that, don't you

I do believe that the American people need to know a lot about the shortcomings of our intelligence community, but they also need to know the good things that are going on, and what we are going to do in this investigation, I believe, is bring out the best of both,

I don't believe you've asked for a blank check you've been specific, ... You've asked for flexibility and you've asked for resources, I think we need to give you all the resources that you need to prosecute and win this war. We should not even blink, we should give you the flexibility that you need to finance this to conduct it.

Let's follow the money, ... If we follow the money, we're going to get to the truth, and I think the truth will not be very nice.

I know the director over there is in denial, but I believe he's totally wrong, and facts will be brought out to prove that,

You can't finance terrorists, you can't finance charities that you have reason to believe that will finance terrorism around the world and even abet it, and say, 'Oh, we're great friends of the United States.'

It would be embarrassing, I think, to a lot of people there, ... Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer.

I think the basic tenet that we learned is a lack of coordination and sharing of information, different cultures in the community of intelligence, ... We have done our job, and now we have got to do more legislatively and the people who run the intelligence community have got to do theirs.

He should step down, ... Face the Nation.

All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.

I have met Scott Ritter before and I think he's an idealist. I think he wants to believe that everybody's good and the world's going to be safe. But I don't believe there's any real credence to his statements. It looks to me like he's over there courting Saddam Hussein at the wrong time at the wrong place.

We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.

A sizable portion of properties continue to receive insurance rates that are far from actuarially sound,

I think they're beginning to ... but they waited a long time. They could have done more immediately, ... Meet the Press.

I have been confident that the committee would dismiss this matter, and I was pleased to learn of their decision to do just that,

We believe we have crafted a bill that reflects the priorities of the committee as well as those of the entire Senate,

The local tool rental place has a much better idea of where their tools are.

I would like to know how it could take us 10 years, dozens of lives, numerous lawsuits, substantial consumer complaints, tire replacements overseas and repeated expressions of concern by an insurance company before any action was taken to initiate an investigation into the safety of a product being used by millions of American families. Simply put - the American people deserve better.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

All of us, I think, owe the American people an explanation as to why our intelligence community failed to provide adequate warning of such a terrorist attack on our soil.

I don't believe he served the president well, ... I don't believe he served the nation well.

We knew that it was going to be a lot of money and it was going to take a lot of time,

I share the president's commitment to bolstering the American economy, and I support his plan for targeted tax relief.

I subscribe entirely and wholeheartedly to that dual mandate, ... I do not subscribe to any rigid or mechanical rule in policy making.

shows that the FBI and the other agencies of the intelligence community must remain vigilant.

There are thousands of these surface-to-air missiles around the world.

Mister Secretary, you should be here today, of all people,

I can tell you they should be careful before they residents move back in. But I did see signs of life in New Orleans, ... We should help the people ... but we should not take unnecessary risks.

I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.

It's very important that we bring credibility, which is integrity, to our capital markets. And we're going to have to do this by strengthening in a big way our accounting profession.

I think it is working, but I don't think you could say it is working well -- not after such a glaring mistake.

Throughout the life of this investigation, I have taken the position that I never knowingly disclosed any classified information. My position has not changed,

Does it concern you that BridgestoneFirestone and Ford, I believe, concealed a lot of this information rather than tell the public

That's a dicey proposition right now. I don't know how you can create a Palestinian state at the moment with all of the violence that's going on, all of the terrorist attacks,

The reports are all preliminary, but we hope to know more in the next few hours, ... They didn't totally connect it, but they didn't rule it out.

This is just the beginning, I believe, of more terrorist attacks -- not only in Indonesia, but elsewhere in the world, ... Everywhere, including the United States, will be at risk.

There was not anything in there that most of us on the committee didn't already know, ... I believe that this story that the president had strong information to act on -- that's a bogus story.

We don't need another nuclear power -- not with Iran sponsoring terrorism that it has in the past. The fact that they are seemingly pursuing an avenue to build nuclear weapons should be disturbing to everybody.

I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.

I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.

I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.

I believe it will be some time before we have a true understanding of the actual damages and recovery needs in the region, ... We have already acted and will continue to act in the Senate, on both sides of the aisle, to make sure the victims have everything they need to be made whole, to be back on their feet, make no mistake about it.

I am changing parties to a party of hope for America, not a party of dependency,

He passed the buck to no one. He accepted it in the mold of President Truman. He admitted a lot. He admitted that no one was prepared. And that means the federal government, the state and the local governments. He was very, very honest, upfront. I think this is a new beginning.

Whether due to a lack of resources or other pressing priorities, mutual fund abuses simply did not receive adequate attention from the SEC,

I believe that I have enough information -- that is, intelligence -- to make an informed decision this coming week on whether or not to support the president of the United States, ... Late Edition.

I wish ... that the administration would agree to declassify a lot more of the report. Seventy percent -- or whatever the figure is -- is not enough. Probably you could go and declassify 90, 95 percent of it without any harm at all to national security. That would be my considered judgment.