Trent Lott: “But, unfortunately, the wheels have come off in the Finance Committee, in the House, in trying to find a way to come…”

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.

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

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…

However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.