Johann Lamont quotes
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“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.”
-- Johann LamontSource : "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.
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“Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.”
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“Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.”
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“The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.”
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“The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.”
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“We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.”
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“We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.”
-- Johann LamontSource : "Lamont launches Scottish Labour Party leader bid". www.bbc.com. November 7, 2011.
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“We shall seek debate without division or rancour.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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 the Olympic or the Paralympic Games.”
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“My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.”
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“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.”
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“My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.”
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“I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.”
-- Johann LamontSource : "Scottish Labour leader's mission: to revive the party... and save the union". Interview with Severin Carrell, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2011.
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“Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.”
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“The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?”
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“Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.”
-- Johann LamontSource : "Labour's wretched silence on child poverty" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.
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“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 failings drive me - drive my overwhelming desire to fight for social justice and equality.”
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“I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.”
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“I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.”
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“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.”
-- Johann LamontSource : "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview With Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.
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“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.”
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“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. It is not a contest between the two.”
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