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We can support our troops without supporting our president.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
President
Support
Troops
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Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Discrimination
Doe
Policy
Public Policy
Racial
Violate
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Money is becoming one of the most corrosive elements of politics.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Becoming
Becoming One
Elements
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Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Running
America
Radio
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There are people who don't vote for a lot of reasons, sometimes as a statement.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
People
Sometimes
Vote
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Why do Sunnis kill Shiites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Differences
Looks
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I'm not a fan of Secretary Rumsfeld. I don't think he listens enough to his uniformed officers.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Enough
Fans
Officers
Secretary
Thinking
Fan
Listens
Rumsfeld
Uniformed
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Freedom is never easily won, but once established, freedom lasts, spreads and chokes out tyranny.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Freedom
Choke
Lasts
Tyranny
Tyrants
Established
Easily
Won
Spreads
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When you're in this type of conflict, when you're at war, civil liberties are treated differently.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
War
Conflict
Liberty
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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
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Men
Country
President
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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.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Details
Firsts
Libertarian
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It seems that nearly every American either has a share of federal spending or has a close relative who does.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Doe
Share
Spending
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One of the things I really want is for people to feel the civic responsibility, and not just refuse to vote out of protest.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
People
Responsibility
Want
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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.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Government
War
Self
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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 / Former United States Senator
Disdain
Granted
Little Things
Dictators
Remain
Take For Granted
Terrorists
Throughout
We Cannot
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I think the important thing is for the president to show action. The people in America want to know that we're listening to them and their concerns.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
America
People
Thinking
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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 / Former United States Senator
America
Generations
Military
Military Force
Motivated
People
Young People
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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.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Calling
Dollars
Gold
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I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Alive
Earth
People
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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.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Grandparent
Long
Vision
Bound
Formed
Lifetimes
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It is America, I don't want the government trying to control more of my life. I want less government control, and I think there are too many government regulations, laws and taxes on the books.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Government
Book
Thinking
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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 / Former United States Senator
Blue
Defined
Hollywood
Individual
Media
Red
Resent
States
Subjective
Reject
Sent
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While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Folks
Generations
Grounded
May
Nations
Nurturing
Overcoming
Accept
Overcome
Founded
Eventually
Iraqis
Prosper
Rarely
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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 / Former United States Senator
Apology
Choices
Discarded
Embrace
Impression
Offended
Past
Apologize
Choice
Conveyed
Further
Policies
Statement
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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?
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Ministers
President
Prime
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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 ... not to march in lock step with everything the president decides to do.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Jobs
Decision
Majority Leader
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I understand what's going on in people's minds, and I think the political leaders better be asking themselves 'why is it, that Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Bernie Sanders and maybe even others are having the impact that they are having?'
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Impact
People
Thinking
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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 all these years either.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Country
President
Ran
Years
Voted
Followed
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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.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Dallas
Foreign Policy
Individual Rights
Neighborhood
Policy
Tax
Davis
Believed
Foreign
Jefferson
Platform
Tax Policy
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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.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Differences
Hate
People
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If the president comes forward with a strong, qualified nominee, if he, you know, addresses the agenda, if he takes actions, including dealing with perhaps some personnel decisions, I think that people will show that he is moving forward and doing the right thing for our country.
Trent Lott / Former United States Senator
Country
Moving
Strong
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