Trent Lott: “As I mentioned earlier, the only government support program for U.S. shipbuilders is the Title XI Ship Loan Guarantee…”

I was always a conservative Republican and I had very strong beliefs about certain things we should or should not do. But also thought that I was sent to Washington by the people of my state not to make a statement but to make a difference…

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.

I think if they would go back to the old way of getting things done, carefully and systematically, would really help them.

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.