Richard Shelby actually said...

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

"I believe that once finalized, they will result in the savings of thousands of American jobs."

"I think that we ought to, where there is a HUD investigation involved... we ought to have a clean bill of health from the man before I vote on him."

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