Trent Lott: “I note, Mr. President, that this is the breast and cervical cancer legislation. It has broad bipartisan support. I am…”

I think that many aspects to what the Obama administration and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is doing and the race for the top that have some positive features.

A lot of it is because Republicans when they start talking don't talk about education. You have to talk about it. You have to go there, where they are.

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.

I also think this is a classic chicken-and-egg deal. We tell Amtrak we want them to do better, but yet we don't offer any reforms, challenges, responsibilities to do better. We throw rocks and say: Why aren't you providing better service…