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Johann Lamont
Scottish
Politician
Born:
Jul 11
,
1957
About
Party
People
Politics
Will
You
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We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
Johann Lamont
People
Ambition
Humility
Must
Seek
Talk
Concerns
Learn
Listen
Again
Show
We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.
Johann Lamont
Government
You
Conversation
Local
Local Government
Way
Find
Having
Parties
How
Across
Fund
Need
I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
Johann Lamont
Hide
Will
Promise
Cost
Propose
Deliver
Never
Cannot
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
You
Will
Please
Say
See
True
Genuinely
Always
How
Honest
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
Life
Best
Family
Job
Ability
Wrapped
Between
Contest
Always
Doing
Been
Up
Working
Working Life
Two
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
Johann Lamont
Government
Consequences
Pretend
About
Talk
Make
Any
Want
Choices
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
Great
Challenges
People
Our
Seek
Great One
Facing
Because
How
How Far
Fallen
Task
Just
Just Because
Far
Serve
My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice.
Johann Lamont
Injustice
Fight
Poverty
Party
Crusade
Inequality
Scottish
Labour
Labour Party
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.
Johann Lamont
Politics
Cause
Progressive
Something
Another
The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.
Johann Lamont
Will
Party
Breath
Trade
Scottish
Labour
Labour Party
Listen
While
Body
Views
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
Myself
Pride
Completed
Athletes
Pretty
Having
Only
Picked
Feel
Proud
Real
Games
Marathon
Olympic
Imagine
Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
Johann Lamont
Rat
Exam
Rat Race
Factories
Schools
Race
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
Economic Crisis
Burden
Those
Crisis
Unacceptable
Carrying
Economic
Had
True
Least
Causing
Heaviest
Across
Who
I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God.
Johann Lamont
God
Strong
Mother
Sense
Sight
Strong Sense
Particular
Equal
Got
Very
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
Life
Man
Own
One Thing
Could
Take
Never
He
Well
Mistaken
Himself
Learned
Very
Any
Estimate
Thing
The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?
Johann Lamont
You
Argument
Something
Rather
Make
Make A Difference
Test
Than
Difference
Theoretical
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
Love
Politics
You
Man
Political
Debate
Somebody
More
Point
Beating
Political Debate
Where
Frustrated
Hard
Play
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
Christmas
You
Face
Friday
Taught
Anything
Afternoon
Thing
Last
Basically
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
Together
Separation
Other
Way
Concepts
Mixed
Stop
Different
Cannot
Which
Two
The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.
Johann Lamont
Me
Important
Party
More
Renewal
Scottish
Than
Labour
Labour Party
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
Our
Distinct
Recognise
Colleagues
Neighbours
Must
Remain
Partnership
Scotland
Chosen
There is a presumption made among nationalists that constitutional change is the answer to all the questions that are problematic in our communities, and my job is to talk about what is happening in the real world.
Johann Lamont
Change
World
Job
Made
Our
Presumption
Constitutional
About
Talk
Answer
Real
Questions
Problematic
The Real World
Happening
Real World
Communities
Among
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
Politics
You
Game
Think
Circus
Purpose
Around
Forget
Then
Actually
If you don't accept there is a problem, then it is hard to debate things.
Johann Lamont
You
Problem
Debate
Accept
Then
Hard
Things
I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.
Johann Lamont
Change
Party
Changing
Way
Only
Scotland
Scottish
Labour
Labour Party
Want
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
Election
Party
Scale
Bad
See
Exceptionally
Coming
Hammered
Been
Labour
Labour Party
Place
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