Trent Lott: “I reclaim my time. If the Senator is going to make that kind of statement about what we are going to do, throwing senior…”

Quit campaigning, quit having press conferences, sit down at a round table and negotiate a deal.

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 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…

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