Johann Lamont Quotes

We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.

We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.

We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

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

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

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.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

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

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

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.

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

My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

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.

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.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

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.

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.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

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.

I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.