Quotes About Alex Salmond

#1. If the oil runs out, we'll be reduced to fracking Alex Salmond.

Rory Bremner

#2. I admire [Alex] Salmond in many ways but my problem with him has always been this independence thing within the EU, which is rubbish.

Nigel Farage

#3. I won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister.

Nicola Sturgeon

#4. I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working together.

Nicola Sturgeon

#5. I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example ... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on.

Nicola Sturgeon

#6. Love is the only power that transforms a wounded person into a healed person. There is no such thing as a completely unscathed person. We are either wounded and diminished, or we are healed.

Jake Owensby

#7. There are moments in one's life that make one realize one could be making better choices.

Kristin Newman

#8. We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.

Alex Salmond

#9. The second assault on Fallujah was a monument to brutality and atrocity made in the United States of America. Like the Spanish city of Guernica during the 1930s, and Grozny in the 1990s Fallujah is our monument of excess and overkill.

Dahr Jamail

#10. The peace that comes with surrendered action turns to a sense of aliveness when you actually enjoy what you are doing.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Louisa May Alcott

#12. We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Alex Salmond

#13. It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

Alex Salmond

#14. The dear Archdeacon is getting so absent-minded. He read a list of box-holders for the opera as the First Lesson the other Sunday, instead of the families and lots of the tribes of Israel that entered Canaan. Fortunately no one noticed the mistake.

Saki

#15. Give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you.

Madeline Bridges

#16. The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.

Alex Salmond

#17. Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

Alex Salmond

#18. For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die,

Alex Salmond

#19. Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

Alex Salmond