Quotes by Johann Lamont

About Johann Lamont:

Johann MacDougall Lamont is a Scottish politician, who was leader of the Scottish Labour Party from 2011 to 2014. She served as a junior minister in the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition Scottish Executive from 2004 until the coalition's defeat by the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 2007. She was subsequently elected deputy leader of the opposition Labour group of MSPs in 2008, and was elected to lead the Labour Party in December 2011. She announced her resignation in October 2014, and following a leadership election to replace her, was succeeded by Jim Murphy in December.
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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.

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

Johann Lamont

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

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.

Johann Lamont

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.

Johann Lamont

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

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 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 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 Lamont

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

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

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

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.

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

Johann Lamont

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

Johann Lamont

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.

Johann Lamont

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

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We shall seek debate without division or rancour.

Johann Lamont

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

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Author Bio

  • NameJohann Lamont
  • DescriptionMembers of the Scottish Parliament
  • BornJuly 11, 1957
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPolitician