Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
Richard Craig Shelbyis the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated in 1961. After law school, he went on to serve as city prosecutor. During this period he worked as a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
I subscribe entirely and wholeheartedly to that dual mandate, ... I do not subscribe to any rigid or mechanical rule in policy making.
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.
Everywhere, including the United States, will be at risk.
The message has to be that we're gonna hunt you down and we're gonna find you and we're gonna make you pay that price, ... We're not gonna let you attack our people innocent people and walk away, because if we do there will be more attacks.
The fact you might capture part of the king's bodyguard doesn't mean you've got the king.
If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way 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.
If you're going to move to private accounts, which I approve of, (you) have to do it in a cautious, gradual way,
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.
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 believe it will be a big debate, but at end of day I don't believe we'll let cloning of human embryos,
How we do it, when we do it, I don't know and I'm not even sure the president knows,
I'm going to support the president, and I believe there will be about 70 or 80 senators that will do the same.
I'm going to do whatever I can to help, ... Selma is going to really shine.