Trent Lott
Trent Lott
Chester Trent Lott, Sr.is an American politician. A former United States Senator from Mississippi, Lott served in numerous leadership positions in both the United States House of Representatives and the Senate. He entered Congress as one of the first of a wave of Republicans winning seats in Southern states that had been solidly Democratic. He became Senate Majority Leader, then fell from power after praising Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist Dixiecrat presidential bid...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth9 October 1941
CityGrenada, MS
CountryUnited States of America
For the sake of getting this done, I would plead again to my colleagues on both sides of the aisle: Let's find a way to get an agreement to do aviation security. And then find a way to do these other issues that are all so important,
I agree with that, and I think the administration is looking seriously at that question, ... Face the Nation.
Our military isn't perfect, but it's about as close to perfect as humanly possible.
In the summer of 2002...the President began lobbying for an open-ended resolution empowering him to wage war on Iraq.... Bush had made clear his intentions to wage war on Iraq in several of our private meetings.
I am absolutely satisfied that if we are going to have a major conflict again in Iraq, that Congress will be involved, that there will be time for a debate,
I am not going to allow this issue to be used for political purposes,
I couldn't argue with the words he chose. But the tone he employed was devastating ... booming and nasty.
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.
There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.
Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.
I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
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.
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.