Trent Lott: “I certainly agree. I have found, as I have gone to my own State and other States, that when people find out what we are…”

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're going to go forward, trying to do our part, and we need to count on the administration, the airlines, the entire industry, to do their part.

I can't help but feel honored and humbled by all that has been said here. My mother would have loved it and would have believed it all. I feel totally inadequate to properly respond to much of what has been said. I thank my colleagues one…

I think that many aspects to what the Obama administration and the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is doing and the race for the top that have some positive features.