Johann Lamont Quotes

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• Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.
• Scotland is my country, the nation that shaped me, that taught me my values. A nation whose achievements inspired and inspire me, a community whose…
• I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
• I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
• I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.
• 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 mistaken.
• It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable.
• Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
• My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
• Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
• Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
• The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
• The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
• We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
• We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
• We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
• What I will say will not always please you, but what I say will always be honest and true and how I genuinely see it.
• While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
• 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 for…
• My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the best for my family.…

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