Richard Shelby actually said...

"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..."

"we cannot starve the future. We cannot starve our children of food and sustenance. We cannot starve them of an education."