Richard Shelby actually said...

"Social Security is your program."

"The greatest obstacle to our Nation's fiscal stability is ignoring our increasing entitlement obligations."

"The Federal Government, I believe, should give States the flexibility to implement critical reforms as identified on the State and local level."

"But if you cannot have it all, and you cannot--I wish you could, and I wish that I were here when we owed no money as a Nation, because I think a lot of us could get together and have a lot of good id..."