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The Department of Commerce plays a vital role in our Federal Government and is in dire need of a leader to oversee the programs and agencies that are in distress.
4/22/2009
The talk is over. Now it is time for action.
4/22/2009
I wish we had established that principle more clearly.
3/25/2009
I wanted the market to decide that.
3/25/2009
I hope we will resist any move--any move--that gives anybody that kind of power and basically renders almost every other entity in Governmen...
3/25/2009
I have a deep faith that continues to this very day, that markets do a better job disciplining risk than bureaucrats do.
3/25/2009
Absolutely.
3/25/2009
You cannot stop everybody from failing. You have to have a mechanism where the people who were unsuccessful get taken over and replaced by p...
3/25/2009
I believe myself that they have utterly failed as a regulator, utterly, because most of our Wall Street banks that got in trouble, and some ...
3/25/2009
The SEC's Consolidated Supervised Entity Program, I believe was not a success.
3/25/2009
I think we ought to pay particular attention to that.
3/25/2009
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Richard  Shelby
out of office

usa, Alabama

2,564 Quotes

Born5/6/1935 (age 90)

PartyRepublican

  • United States Senator

    1/3/1987 - 1/3/2021
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