Trent Lott: “It is a bill whose time has come.”

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 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.

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

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…