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I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
- Johann Lamont
#Cannot
#Deliver
#Hide
#Never
#Will
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
- Johann Lamont
#About
#Challenge
#Politics
#Truth
When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.
- Johann Lamont
#Balance
#Doors
#Inevitable
#More
#Talent
My uncle was skipper on the old Claymore sailing out from Oban to the Inner Hebrides. My father worked for MacBraynes all his life, on freight boats and then on ferries crossing to Skye, Barra, Uist, the small isles and Iona.
- Johann Lamont
#Father
#Life
#Old
#Small
#Uncle
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
- Johann Lamont
#Exam
#Factories
#Race
#Rat Race
#Rat
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
#Children
#Education
#Passion
#School
In my mind, the CalMac ferry is linked with the joy of arrival, the sadness of departure, the loss of loved ones brought home by ferry to rest in island soil. It is friendships made and a working life begun.
- Johann Lamont
#Home
#Joy
#Life
#Mind
#Rest
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
#Go
#Morning
#Myself
#Never
#Speak
I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.
- Johann Lamont
#Activist
#Ridiculous
#Teacher
#Time
We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.
- Johann Lamont
#Conversation
#Find
#Government
#How
#Way
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
#Community
#Equality
#Fight
#Justice
#Me
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
#I Have Learned
#Life
#Man
#Never
#Own
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
#Burden
#Crisis
#Economic Crisis
#True
The instinct of the Labour Party is if there's a problem, change the leader, then sit back, fold your arms and wait to be disappointed because they're sure it's not going to deliver.
- Johann Lamont
#Back
#Change
#Deliver
#Sit
#Wait
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
#Afternoon
#Anything
#Christmas
#Face
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