Trent Lott: “If I could ask my colleagues to defer just a moment, Senator Daschle and I would like to get one more unanimous consent…”

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.

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…

Would you at the very least sit down with him and listen to him?

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