A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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He promised more oversight hearings in 1998, though he did not specify exactly what the hearings would address. We intend to make government accountable, ... From the classroom to the courts ... from the clerks to the president's Cabinet ... from the post office to the presidency. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The House could say, 'Well, it's not serious enough for impeachment, but this is clearly conduct that is on the margin that we don't approve of,' and the House Judiciary Committee would report out a censure resolution and the House would vote on it, ... Evans Novak. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I know, Sen. Daschle, that the weight of this job will be as heavy as the weight on Atlas when he carried the world on his shoulders, ... I hope I can help sometimes to make that burden a little lighter. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The genocide has been taking place. The damage has been done, ... Now and only now they prepare to take serious action. I think that is curious. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
And Sen. Jim Jeffords of Vermont was a loose cannon, ... He's always had a habit of bartering his vote on crucial legislation for his own pet projects. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I keep getting mixed signals from the president. I don't know if he wants to get some things done with cooperation or whether he is going to go the partisan route, the political route, ... Meet the Press. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I've discussed this with the president ... and I've discussed it with the speaker of the House ... and they both feel like the Sarbanes bill is within the range that they can support. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Unfortunately, the Senate is becoming a black hole of inactivity, ... Let's stop that. The people want action. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We should just extend it and if the White House objects, let them veto it. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The problem with the censure resolution right now is that, I think, the Senate is tired, ... We've done what we were required to do under the Constitution. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Daschle, left, calls the resolution something we can work on ... it is time to quit waffling. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We've made some real efforts, but things have gotten worse, ... Jiminy, it's a big problem. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I think we could probably do more than 1.6 trillion, but we shouldn't start off by loading it up with every good idea that's out there. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I have full faith that our negotiators will craft a measure that will lead us on a track towards turning the economy around. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Our military isn't perfect, but it's about as close to perfect as humanly possible. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
He's a charming guy who was a suing lawyer -- that's S-U-I-N-G lawyer -- who dropped by the Senate for four years and thought he was ready to be president. Now he wants to be vice president. What credentials does he have Zero. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
For him to be in Baghdad, the center of one of the most dangerous dictators in the world, with all kinds of weapons of mass destruction, to be questioning the veracity of our own American president, is the height of irresponsible, ... He needs to come home and keep his mouth shut. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Most Americans in both red and blue states reject and resent the message being sent by Hollywood and some in the media that values are subjective, to be defined by the individual and not by God. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Clearly, we need to give the people an opportunity to keep more of their money which is now creating the surplus, for them to decide how to make use of their own money, ... Now ... the way to do that is to do it with an across-the-board, tax-rate cut. I would like to see it be 10 percent across the board. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My job as majority leader is be supportive of our troops, try to have input as decisions are made and to look at those decisions after they're made, ... And not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I do think we, the president, all of us need to do a better job, do more, ... why we have made this commitment, what is being done now, what we do expect in the process and, yes, why it's going to take more time. - Trent Lott Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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