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

Johann Lamont

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Johann Lamont
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: July 11
Politician
Schoolteacher
Glasgow
Scotland
Johann MacDougall Lamont
Politics
Truth
Confronting
Challenge
Telling
Challenges

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Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.
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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.
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Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.
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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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We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another.
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Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.
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I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.
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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.
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We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
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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.
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The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
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We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns.
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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.
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Maybe I was just born to argue with men.
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