Richard Shelby actually said...

"It is for these reasons that President Bush and later President Obama marshaled the resources of our government."

"Getting out of the automobile industry by the U.S. Government yesterday would not be soon enough for me."

"Failure of any one of Detroit's Big Three poses obviously, I believe, a grave systemic risk to the economy."

"What I deem conflicts of interest, the Federal Government is now the principal labor, environmental, and safety regulator..."