Richard Shelby actually said...

"To rebuild confidence in our financial system, both here at home and around the world, we must reconstruct our regulatory framework."

"I really worry today if what we are seeing is kind of a dead cat bounce where all we are doing is pushing so much borrowed liquidity into our marketplace that we are just setting ourselves up for the ..."

"I do not believe either in the mortgage area or in the core things that threaten the stability of the system it is fair to say that where those things were most acute, they were institutions that were..."

"Stronger consumer protection could have stopped this crisis before it started."