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" If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken. "
I Have Learned
Man
Life
" I got a very strong sense from my mother, in particular, that we are all equal in the sight of God. "
Mother
Equal
God
" 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. "
Man
Politics
Debate
" 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. "
Proud
Pride
Myself
" It's true across the U.K. that those who had least to do with causing the economic crisis are carrying the heaviest burden. That's unacceptable. "
Economic
True
Crisis
" 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. "
Passion
School
Education
" I've taught fifth-year Christmas leavers last thing on a Friday afternoon. Basically, if you can face that you can face anything. "
Friday
Last
You
" I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose. "
Will
Cannot
Cost
" Maybe I was just born to argue with men. "
Born
Argue
Men
" My biggest ambition is to bring together what happens in the real world with what politicians talk about. "
Together
Ambition
Politicians
" My Scottish Labour Party is a crusade - to fight poverty, inequality and injustice. "
Poverty
Injustice
Fight
" 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. "
Doing
Best
Job
" 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. "
People
Challenges
Great
" Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause. "
Politics
Progressive
Cause
" Schools are not exam factories for the rat race. "
Factories
Rat Race
Rat
" 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. "
Justice
Equality
Me
" Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. "
Politics
Challenge
Telling
" The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences. "
Talk
Choices
Consequences
" The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists. "
Listen
Breath
Body
" The test is can you do something, rather than have a theoretical argument - can you make a difference? "
Make A Difference
Test
You
" We do students a great disservice by implying that one set of students is more important than another. "
Than
Important
Students
" We must listen and learn, show humility and seek again to talk for and to people's ambitions and concerns. "
Listen
Talk
Humility
" We shall seek debate without division or rancour. "
Shall
Debate
Division
" We will renew our party, to rebuild our land - and we will do it by being a better Labour, real Labour, Scottish Labour. "
Real
Will
Better
" 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. "
Honest
You
Always
" 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. "
Nothing
Leader
Limits
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