"Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about." ― Johann Lamont Topic(s): Politics More From 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." "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." "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." More In Politics "There’s no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class."― Peter Welch "We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can’t be unique and universal at the same time."― Lewis Thomas "When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics."― William Hague