Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing… — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference? — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. — Johann Lamont Copy Share Image
