Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. – Johann Lamont
Ive taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. – Johann Lamont
Ive got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks its 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
When you come from desperate poverty, and thats exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. Im not sure who gains from chaos, but I know its not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. – Johnny Rotton