If we could get this done, then we could maybe--I have always maintained that the only way you get these things moving is to get them moving one at a time. If we get a little reciprocity, we get a little something here and something there, then we can get this locomotive moving again.
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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.
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.