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I've been a stalwart for national security.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
National Security
Security
National
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Unions don't create jobs. People create jobs.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Jobs
People
Unions
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I want people to have the right to bear arms.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Arms
People Right Want
Bear
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I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Congress
Monetary
Monetary Policy
Policy
Setting
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I do not like government-sponsored enterprises.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Like
Enterprises
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We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Aggressive
Hell
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I support the president 100 percent - when hes right.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Percent
President
Support
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I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.
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Percent
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The American people fear there is some gouging going on.
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American People
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If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Chair
Right Go Things
Committee
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We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Second Amendment
Amendment
Some People
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What we should do is promote trade in the world, not try to stifle it.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Promote
Stifle
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I feel good. I've got a lot of energy. I've got a lot of purpose, too.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Feel Good
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A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Believe People Real
Real Reform
Reform Bill
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I never apologize for my efforts to support worthy projects that Alabama.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Alabama
Apology
Effort
Support
Worthy
Apologize
Efforts
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I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Gop
Republicans
Grand
Regroup
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I share the Presidents commitment to fighting and winning the war on terrorism.
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War
Commitment
Fighting
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I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Financial System
Believe I Believe New
Believe New I Believe
Regulatory
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I want the market to work if it can, and most of the time it will, but not without some pain.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
But Not Without
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It has become increasingly clear to me that the White House is not interested in good-faith negotiations.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
House
Negotiation
White
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I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Detroit
Billion
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Are we going to change the Constitution? I hope never. We would have to amend it. Let's uphold the Second Amendment.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Second Amendment
Amend
Uphold
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I do believe that we should keep guns out of the hands of terrorists, would-be terrorists, and a lot of other people.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Would Be
Guns
Terrorists
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If there's not any endgame, we're in quicksand. We take one more step, and we're still there, and there's no way out.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Endgame
Quicksand
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We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.
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Groups
Terrorist
Waiting
Eradicate
Failed
Wherever
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Even some of my Republican friends say I have a populist, progressive streak. I am not a doctrinaire, anti-government person.
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Populist
Progressive
Streak
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You can't go to Washington as a congressman and a senator and expect to make a difference all at once. You have to earn your way.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Congressman
Senator
Washington
Earn
Expect
Make A Difference
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I have been advocating for a long time that the Export Import Bank shouldn't be for one or two companies, and that's what it's for, basically.
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Advocating
Time Long Long Time
Bank
Export
Import
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We cannot cut and run. If we are to ensure freedom and democracy, it is essential that we follow through on our obligation to bring about stability in Iraq.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Running
Cutting
Follow Through
Iraq
Obligation
Stability
Cut
Ensure
Essential
We Cannot
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I think you have to be concerned about any presidential executive order because it has the power of law until it's knocked down by an act of Congress or a court.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Presidential
Executive
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We have a unique relationship with the U.K., Great Britain. Tony Blair has been a steadfast spokesman for Britain, and also for the joint interests that we share.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Relationship
Blair
Britain
Great Britain
Share
Steadfast
Unique
Interests
Joint
Spokesman
Tony
Tony Blair
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Federal Reserve officials have stressed the importance of the Fed's independence. But such independence does not mean that it is immune from Congressional oversight.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Independence
Federal Reserve
Immune
Importance
Officials
Oversight
Stressed
Congressional
Fed
Reserve
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People who are going to do us harm are never going to register guns. Terrorists, you believe they're going to register guns? Why, no. Goodness, alive, are you crazy?
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Goodness
Harm
Register
Guns
Terrorists
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John McCain has not been president of the United States. He ran. He ran a spirited campaign. We lost. I hated to see us lose, but there were a lot of things working against us.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Mccain
Ran
Spirited
Campaign
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I believe that reforming our intelligence community is one of the most important things that we can do in order to ensure that our country is in fact safer, stronger and wiser.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Believe
Country
Important Things
Intelligence Community
Order
Stronger
Wiser
Intelligence Believe I Believe
Ensure
In Fact
Reforming
Safer
The Most Important
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I believe Europe is burning financially. Europe's problems are not going to go away. They are so structural. Yet, our problems are right behind them. We cannot just look at Europe.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Burning
Believe I Believe Look
Financially
Go Away
Structural
We Cannot
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A lot of people believe, and I do at times, that some of our trade agreements are lopsided, and we've got to look at them. But that doesn't mean that we're going to put a tariff on everything.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Trade Agreements
Believe Look People
Agreements
Look Believe People
Tariff
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All of us want to see the details of any legislative plan if there's going to be a legislative response, but Congress, I believe, is in the mood to do whatever it takes to win this war against terrorism.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Congress
Details
Mood
Response
Terrorism
War Believe I Believe
Legislative
Plan
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Saddam Hussein has been tenacious in his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and, unless he is removed from power, he will eventually harm our nation and our allies. Every moment we delay allows him to grow stronger.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Allies
Delay
Destruction
Harm
Hussein
Mass
Mass Destruction
Pursuit
Saddam
Stronger
Tenacious
Weapons
Saddam Hussein
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The Treasury's plan has little for those outside of the financial industry. It is aimed at rescuing the same financial institutions that created this crisis with the sloppy underwriting and reckless disregard for the risk they were creating, taking or passing on to others.
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Business
Creating
Passing On
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A number of former Wells Fargo employees have described their work environment characterized by intense pressure to meet aggressive and unrealistic sales goals. In a 2010 letter to shareholders, Mr. Stumpf wrote that Wells Fargo's goal was eight products per customer because eight rhymed with great.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Aggressive
Eight
Environment
Fargo
Former
Intense
Pressure
Products
Shareholders
Work Environment
Work Great Goals
Mr
Characterized
Customer
Employees
Number
Per
Letter
Meet
Sales
Unrealistic
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Wells Fargo's internal review only covers unauthorized accounts dating back to 2011. News reports and court documents suggest these problems might have existed long before then. The 2013 'Los Angeles Times' articles led to the L.A. city attorney's office investigation into Wells Fargo's sales practices.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Dating
Accounts
Articles
Attorney
Documents
Fargo
Investigation
Los Angeles
Reports
Angeles
Covers
Existed
Internal
Los
Practices
Review
Sales
Suggest
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Dodd-Frank greatly expanded the regulatory reach of the Federal Reserve. It did not, however, examine whether it was correctly structured to account for these new and expansive powers. Therefore, the Committee will be examining the appropriateness of the Fed's current structure in a post Dodd-Frank world.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Dodd Frank
Federal Reserve
Structure
World Will New
Account
Committee
Correctly
Current
Examine
Expansive
Fed
World New Will
Greatly
Post
Powers
Regulatory
Reserve
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I believe that when you are attacked like we were attacked in America by these terrorist groups, that we not only have to respond in kind, we've got to go farther. We've got to destroy these groups because just sure as we don't - if we didn't respond, we will be hit again and again and again, and we will live in fear.
Richard Shelby / United States Senator
Groups
Terrorist
Fear Believe I Believe
Attacked
Respond
Destroy
Farther
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