Richard Shelby actually said...

"If this is not a wake-up call, I don't know what could be; do you?"

"It seems to me, although I've always supported and will support this supplemental with money and help, that the government and the army has lost the will, or seems to have lost the will to fight even ..."

"A terrorist or a former terrorist or whatever, or terrorist trained, all of that."

"A lot of us were alarmed when it was discovered that the Census had plans for using ACORN as a partner in the 2010 census."