Trent Lott: “I apologize for not having my microphone on earlier. We are trying to lock in the next three speakers. Senator Gregg…”

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.

I have argued we should not filibuster Federal judges. One time when I sat in that seat as majority leader, my colleagues actually voted to filibuster a judge and opposed cloture. Senator Hatch and I took to the floor and said we are not…

let me say again to the Senator from South Carolina who just left the Chamber, I appreciate the way he has approached this. He did not come in and condemn it; he looked at it. He had some ideas, and several of them have been accepted. I…

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