Quotes from Johann Lamont

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

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.

Those of us who were part of creating the Scottish parliament believe we must always test constitutional arrangements. The real test is where do the powers lie? Is it in the best interests of Scotland?

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.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

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.

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

Our politics is about people not flags.

I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything.

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

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.

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.

Schools are not exam factories for the rat race.

The big issues, the things that scar Scotland - the least of them is whether we should have a border at Gretna Green or not.

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.

Scotland has chosen to remain in partnership with our neighbours in the U.K. But Scotland is distinct, and colleagues must recognise that.

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

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.

The job of the Scottish Labour Party is to represent working people and represent Scotland.

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

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.

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

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.