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Zitat des Tages von Johann Lamont:

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate will start to fight that.

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Fair tax does not mean we don't want to encourage wealth creation. Wealth creation is how we raise the money to pay for world class schools and hospitals, for proper care of the weak, and dignity for the elderly.

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

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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.

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My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about.

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We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.

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With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus and determination to establish businesses in some of our remotest communities. But these will not work if they do not have reliable transport routes responding to the impatient modern customer.

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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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Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

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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 won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Johann Lamont

The Scottish Labour Party should work as equal partners with the U.K. party, just as Scotland is an equal partner in the United Kingdom. Scotland has chosen home rule - not London rule.

Johann Lamont

Maybe I was just born to argue with men.

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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.

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There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

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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.

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Our politics is about people not flags.

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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.

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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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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.

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I made a different decision to send my children to the local state school.

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I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

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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.

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