Johann Lamont People Quotations

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

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.

I guess it feels to me that the political argument that has been lost in my lifetime is taxation. How do you engage in that debate when people don't trust politicians at all? It is almost impossible to start a conversation about taxation.

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

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

I'd always step up to the mark to serve the people of the country.