Quotes from Richard Shelby

We've got a second amendment right. I think some people forget that.

I want people to have the right to bear arms.

I support the president 100 percent - when he's right.

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.

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.

If things go right, maybe I'll chair the Appropriations Committee.

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.

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.

I don't want Congress setting monetary policy.

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.

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.

I don't believe $25 billion or $50 billion or $100 billion is going to change the way Detroit does business.

We need to eradicate these terrorist groups, wherever they are. If we failed to do it, we are just waiting for the next.

I feel good. I've got a lot of energy. I've got a lot of purpose, too.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.

A lot of people don't believe that Kirk-Heitkamp is a real reform bill.

I believe that we have to have a new regulatory regime for our financial system.

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.