Johann Lamont Quotes

• 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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  Honest, Being Honest, Please

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• Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

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  Country, Scotland, World

  "Labour's wretched silence on child poverty" by Kevin McKenna, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2012.

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• Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

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  Challenges, Telling The Truth, Confronting

  "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.

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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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  Government, Choices, Want

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• Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

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  Men, Arguing, Born

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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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  Mother, Strong, Sight

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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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  Country, Fighting, Overwhelming Desire

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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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  Real, Athlete, Pride

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• We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

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  Division, Debate

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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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  Two, Together, Different

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• Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

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  Causes, Progressive

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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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  Real, Ambition, Together

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• Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

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  School, Race, Rats

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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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  Economic, Burden, Crisis

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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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  Differences, Making A Difference, Tests

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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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  Promise, Cost, Propose

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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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  Jobs, Two, My Family

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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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  Party, Views, Body

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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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  Important, Students, Implying

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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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  Men, Play, Political

  "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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• 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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  Children, Passion, School

  "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview With Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.

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• My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.

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  Party, Fighting, Poverty

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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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  Leader, Way, Limits

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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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  Men, Things In Life, I Have Learned

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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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  Ambition, Humility, People

  "Lamont launches Scottish Labour Party leader bid". www.bbc.com. November 7, 2011.

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