Chester Trent Lott ist ein US-amerikanischer Politiker und ehemaliger US-Senator für den Bundesstaat Mississippi. Lott war zweimal Fraktionsführer der republikanischen Mehrheitsfraktion im Senat, musste aber aufgrund heftig kritisierter Äußerungen über den ehemaligen Präsidentschaftskandidaten Strom Thurmond zurücktreten. Er war „Minority Whip“ der Republikaner im Senat des 110. Kongresses. Wikipedia
“When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it.”
On Strom Thurmond, from a speech at Thurmond's 100th birthday party (5 December 2002)
2000s
Kontext: 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.
On Harriet Miers as Supreme Court Justice.
2000s
“You could say that I favored segregation then. I don't now.”
To Time magazine, as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.
1990s
“The spirit of Jefferson Davis lives in the 1984 Republican Platform.”
Speech before the Sons of Confederate Veterans (1984), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.
1980s
Quelle: To The Washington Post (1998), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.
On security versus liberty, as quoted in The Philadelphia Inquirer http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/13427302.htm (17 December 2005).
c.f. Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
2000s
On whether to hold a "vote of no confidence" in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as quoted in Dana Milbank, " A Jolly Good Show, but the Wrong Side of the Pond http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/11/AR2007061102092.html" The Washington Post 2007-06-12.
2000s
On solar energy in a speech to the Independent Petroleum Association of America, as quoted in The Washington Post (23 May 1997).
1990s
On Ronald Reagan, as quoted in an interview in the New York Times Sunday Magazine (20 June 2004).
2000s
On filibustering, as quoted in The Clarion-Ledger (23 May 2003), "Lott aims to change filibuster rules" http://orig.clarionledger.com/news/0305/23/m05.html
2000s
“I've already seen enough. Why would I want to go see a bunch of perverted pictures?”
On why he did not want to review more evidence during congressional hearings regarding the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, as quoted in The New York Times (2004).
2000s
On the closure of the Senate to discuss intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq (1 November 2005), as quoted in The Associated Press (1 November 2005).
2000s
On arming 4 year old children, as quoted in "Who is America" Episode 1 on Showtime
2000s
To the CCC (1992), as quoted in The Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/N/Ne/Newton_Michael_-_The_Ku_Klux_Klan_in_Mississippi.pdf (2010), by Michael Newton, p. 195.
1990s
On Sunnis and Shia, as quoted in CNN http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/blogs/politicalticker/2006/09/lott-bush-barely-mentioned-iraq-in.html (2006).
2000s
