"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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"Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.“
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"Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about."
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"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."
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"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."
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"How sweet it is!"
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"We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack."
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"We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal."
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"First, take the government of the Indians out of politics second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites third, give the Indian the ballot."
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"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one."
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