Trent Lott: “That you would get health insurance and that would be deducted, in effect, from the damage? I was not familiar with that…”

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

You've got to do that every now and then. Even though you might get your little flak from some of the people within your conference. It's called leadership.

When you're dealing with 100 United States senators, let alone 435 House members, you're not going to get it all the way you want it. The president's going to have to give some, the president is going to have to show leadership.

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.