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
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.
Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.
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.
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.
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.
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.