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Trent Lott: “I will not play second fiddle to anybody when it comes to my concern about education. By the way, I am a product of…”

On the recordMarch 26, 1998
I will not play second fiddle to anybody when it comes to my concern about education. By the way, I am a product of public education; so is my wife and both of our children. But I am worried about the quality of education and the violence and drugs in schools. But the difference is, I don't think the answers are here in Washington. Some people say, let's have everything paid for and run everything from Washington. We have tried that ever since the 1960s. The scores are going down and violence is going up. I care about this mightily. Let's have a debate about education. We are going to have a debate about education this year--not one, but probably two or three.
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Discussing the need for a debate on education and concerns about its quality and related issues.

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