Trent Lott Quotes

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I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either.

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You could say that I favored segregation then. I don't now.

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Why do they kill people of other religions because of religion? Why do they hate the Israelis and despise their right to exist? Why do they hate each other? Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.

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I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find.

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This is not the way it has been done. We would never surprise each other … It's not to say that there's not important information that we could discuss or would be discussed in secret or closed session, but I'm astounded by this. I don't really know what the tenor of this is, what is the justification for it and why this extreme approach was used.

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I've already seen enough. Why would I want to go see a bunch of perverted pictures?

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I'm sure you petroleum folks understand that solar power will solve all our problems. How much money have we blown on that? This is the hippies' program from the seventies and they're still pushing this stuff.

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I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.

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We need more meetings like this across the nation. The people in this room stand for the right principles and the right philosophy.

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The filibuster of federal district and circuit judges cannot stand. … It's bad for the institution. It's wrong. It's not supportable under the Constitution. And if they insist on persisting with these filibusters, I'm perfectly prepared to blow the place up. No problem.

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I have made my condemnation of the white supremacist and racist view of this group, or any group, clear.

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The spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform.

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[Congress] is not the British Parliament, and I hope it never will become the British Parliament... Are we going to bring the president in here and have a question period like the prime minister has in Great Britain?

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I am an advocate of having a gold dollar with Reagan's picture on it, and calling it the Ronnie. The Canadians have the Loonie, and we can have the Ronnie.

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