Trent Lott: “I believe we are ready to go forward with amendments postcloture. We did get an agreement last night to go to the…”

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

It's called leadership, Anderson.

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…