Trent Lott: “You know the way we work in Washington is we want to rush to fix blame.”

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

We are going to start doing things a little differently. We are going to go back and do some of the things that worked.

First of all, there's going to be an election and the numbers will be different come this fall. And you're going to need leadership from the President and from the leaders in the Congress.

When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We`re proud of him. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn`t have had all these problems over all these years either.