Trent Lott: “I say to the Senator, we should do that--I wish the administration had done it--and we will have an opportunity to add…”

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.

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.

We do not filibuster judges. And if we were to do that, we would change the culture of this place.

However, like so many of the things that we complain about in the Congress, we looked around, and we found the enemy, and it is us.