Trent Lott: “I certainly would second that recommendation. This matter is too important to the American people to allow any…”

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

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.

My recommendation to the Congress and to the president would be, quit campaigning, quit having press conferences. Sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.