Trent Lott: “Mr. Chief Justice, our Senate family grieves today and our hearts are heavy as a result of the tragic loss of Scott…”

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.

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

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.