Johann Lamont Quotes
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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 Lamont
I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.
— Johann Lamont
We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
— Johann Lamont
I don't agree with the Tories on most things.
— Johann Lamont
The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.
— Johann Lamont
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
— Johann Lamont
We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
— Johann Lamont
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
— Johann Lamont
If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.
— Johann Lamont
It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.
— Johann Lamont
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.
— Johann Lamont
Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.
— Johann Lamont
I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.
— Johann Lamont
We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.
— Johann Lamont
My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.
— Johann Lamont
Our politics is about people not flags.
— Johann Lamont
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.
— Johann Lamont
I've often thought having a politician for a parent must be like having a constantly embarrassing uncle.
— Johann Lamont
Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
— Johann Lamont
The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.
— Johann Lamont
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.
— Johann Lamont
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. We didn't see the scale of it coming.
— Johann Lamont
Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.
— Johann Lamont
I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.
— Johann Lamont
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
— Johann Lamont
There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.
— Johann Lamont
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.
— Johann Lamont
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
— Johann Lamont
I used to go to a Gaelic class on a Saturday morning, but I never felt myself that I could speak it properly.
— Johann Lamont
Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
— Johann Lamont
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
— Johann Lamont
We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
— Johann Lamont
The next phase is to 2016, and yes, I want to be First Minister because I believe I have the life experience, and I've got a commitment to change.
— Johann Lamont
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
— Johann Lamont