Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby
Richard Craig Shelbyis the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated in 1961. After law school, he went on to serve as city prosecutor. During this period he worked as a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 May 1934
CountryUnited States of America
That's a dicey proposition right now. I don't know how you can create a Palestinian state at the moment with all of the violence that's going on, all of the terrorist attacks,
The fact you might capture part of the king's bodyguard doesn't mean you've got the king.
It's very important that we bring credibility, which is integrity, to our capital markets. And we're going to have to do this by strengthening in a big way our accounting profession.
The same thing at the CIA and the FBI,
I'm going to do whatever I can to help, ... Selma is going to really shine.
I can tell you that at the end of the day, we're going to have to make some tough decisions.
Joel is the champion. I want to apologize to all the spellers. Seldom do we have these problems at the spelling bees.
There will be a continuous talk, but I think as far as passing legislation, I don't see it coming this year.
I subscribe entirely and wholeheartedly to that dual mandate, ... I do not subscribe to any rigid or mechanical rule in policy making.
Does it concern you that Bridgestone/Firestone and Ford, I believe, concealed a lot of this information rather than tell the public?
I think what you will see as these hearings come on and information dribbles out is a failure, big time, in communication between the agencies, ... We have to do better.
I am disappointed that the Air Force did not choose Selma as the site for their Introductory Flight Training program. I believe Selma is an excellent location for IFT, as it meets all the education and training requirements set forth by the Air Force.
I think it is working, but I don't think you could say it is working well -- not after such a glaring mistake.
The message has to be that we're gonna hunt you down and we're gonna find you and we're gonna make you pay that price, ... We're not gonna let you attack our people innocent people and walk away, because if we do there will be more attacks.