Believe Powers Quotes by Johann Lamont

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people,…

— Johann Lamont

I'm pretty proud of having completed a marathon myself, so I can only imagine the pride that real athletes feel when they are picked…

— Johann Lamont

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

— Johann Lamont

I remember going to see Billy Graham in a cinema in Glasgow, and he was down in London. I used to go and hear…

— Johann Lamont

Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world…

— Johann Lamont

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

— Johann Lamont

If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.

— Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

— Johann Lamont

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.

— Johann Lamont

Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community…

— Johann Lamont

I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in…

— Johann Lamont

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

— Johann Lamont

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

— Johann Lamont

If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be…

— Johann Lamont

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

— Johann Lamont