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

Johann Lamont on Politics

More quotes about Politics

  • "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."

    John F. Kennedy on Politics

  • "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself."

    Mark Twain on Politics

  • "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."

    Plato on Politics

  • "If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."

    Milton Friedman on Politics

  • "It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."

    Joseph Stalin on Politics

More quotes by 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."

  • "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."

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

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

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