Johann Lamont
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.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

As a youngster, I travelled every year across the sea to Tiree. On occasion, we ventured to Skye on the Kyleakin-Kyle of Lochalsh ferry, where there is now a bridge.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

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

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

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
Johann Lamont

Our politics is about people not flags.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

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
Johann Lamont

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

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
Johann Lamont

If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

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

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

My granny would come out and stay with us in the winter, and we would listen to the reports from the coastal stations and have a discussion in the middle of Glasgow about what the weather was like in Tiree.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference?

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

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
Johann Lamont

I don't agree with the Tories on most things.

Johann Lamont
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
Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party and its renewal are more important than me.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surface know it is costing us by denying opportunities for others to attend college or university.

Johann Lamont
Johann Lamont

I didn't particularly want to go to Westminster - not that there were many seats available or chances for women to get elected. In 1987, Labour sent down 50 MPs, and only one of them was a woman.