Johann Lamont Quotes
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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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My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
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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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Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
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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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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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My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
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We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
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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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Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.
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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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Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
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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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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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We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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.
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Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
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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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Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
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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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