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
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.
Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
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.
We can support our troops without supporting our president.
Government does best when it helps people help themselves. Human dignity is found not in a handout but in being able to do for one's self.
One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.
[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?
The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.
I don't agree with the libertarians. I want my security first. I'll deal with all the details after that.
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.
Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.
We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.
The platform we had in Dallas, the 1984 Republican platform, all the ideas we supported there - from tax policy, to foreign policy; from individual rights, to neighborhood security - are things that Jefferson Davis and his people believed in.