Trent Lott: “With their indulgence, we do have a couple more consent requests, plus we may need to modify the earlier agreement.”

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.

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

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.

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