Trent Lott: “I want to commend my good friend John Breaux for holding this hearing today in his new capacity as Chairman of this…”

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.

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.

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.

I was accused of being a compromiser or a deal-maker. I didn't know those were dirty words.