Johann Lamont Quotes

States should have enormous input into the decisions that affect them.

The reason I say 'never say never' is because I do not think that there should be another independence referendum in Scotland - I do not think it's in their interest - but on the other hand, I am a big believer in devolution.

Texans can run Texas without the federal government telling them what to do.

… far from making one single Republic, this land has reverted to a state of many little republics of towns and localities.

We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it.

I think that the more we, as a state, yield and cede decisions to the federal government, the lesser we'll be for it as a state.

I have no political issues that I need to seek central authorities' advice on.

So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

Self-determination could mean independence, confederacy, federal and autonomy.

I'm a strong supporter of states' rights to do what they need.

I would support a devolution of power out of Washington for education, health care, transportation.

The same effort that would get us Dominion Home Rule will get us a Republic.

Many people secretly wish that every state be completely independent and that as soon as our public debts are liquidated that Congress shall be no more.

... we have no dynasty of our own and no liking for a foreign dynasty.

To enable consensus politics to develop we need to empower people where they live. This means devolving financial resources and political power down to the community level. One of the greatest blocks to movement is fear. This fear can only be removed when people feel their voices are being heard by government and when they have a say in their own lives and communities.

The Empire is built up on free trade... your Empire is founded on the condition, and it could not have existed until now except on that condition, that every self-governing part of it shall have the right to work out its own prosperity by its own methods.

Individual liberty depends on decentralized government

All my political ideas boil down to a similar formula: political federation or decentralization.

Everyone from Silesians to Sicilians to Scots seems to want autonomy or independence. The British voted to leave the European Union, and hostility to the superstate is rising across the continent.

If we as a party are serious about devolution, then we must respect councils and nations enough to determine their own agenda.

What can we do to put more Colorado in Washington and less Washington in Colorado?

I think that what the majority of Catalan society wants is a relationship between its distinct region and the rest of the country.

We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — “Shall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?” — we should reply with the Shunamite woman: “Nay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.”