Top 100 Quotes About Nicola Sturgeon
#1. The economic basis on which Nicola Sturgeon and the Scottish nationalists made the case for separation was based on an oil price much higher than it is at the moment, so there will be no case for it.
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#3. Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.
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#4. I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.
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#5. I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.
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#6. Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore.
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#7. For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.
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#8. I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it ... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.
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#9. My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.
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#10. The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.
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#11. It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
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#12. I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.
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#13. Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.
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#14. We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that.
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#15. A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.
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#17. The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.
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#18. I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.
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#19. Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.
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#22. I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is.
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#23. A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board.
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#24. It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
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#25. If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer.
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#26. I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.
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#27. Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.
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#28. My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel.
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#29. I think it is disgraceful. I think it is completely disgusting that you've got a candidate for prime minster who seems to think that human beings are bargaining chips.
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#30. This is about sending a very strong message that Scotland does want to stay in the European Union and we're an open country, a good place to live, work, study and to do business and it's really important as we take forward what will be challenging work ahead of us, that we send those messages.
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#31. Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
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#33. Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken.
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#34. An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours.
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#35. Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.
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#36. Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up.
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#37. Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.
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#38. I stand here today as the first woman first minister of our country. Every day I hold this office, I will work to ensure that every woman, every wee girl across this country, gets a chance to do what I've done and follow their dream.
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#39. I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.
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#42. To every woman out there who thinks that they might like to get involved in politics or stand for parliament, I say go for it. If I can do it, so can you.
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#43. People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard.
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#44. Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.
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#45. It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life.
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#46. For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.
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#48. I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.
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#49. People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.
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#50. A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.
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#51. The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic.
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#52. Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
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#53. As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.
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#54. Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.
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#55. Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.
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#56. At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time.
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#57. Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!
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#58. Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.
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#59. I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries, because you are talking very much about communities. It can be a very emotive thing.
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#60. Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.
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#61. I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.
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#62. English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.
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#63. Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.
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#64. Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.
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#65. I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman ... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.
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#66. I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.
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#68. One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.
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#69. If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.
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#70. There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'
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#71. My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.
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#73. Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.
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#74. I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through.
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#75. Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too.
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#76. Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.
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#77. It is one of the little known facts about modern Scottish politics that it is not quite as cut-throat as people think it is.
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#78. Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.
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#79. I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am.
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#80. One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.
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#81. Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.
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#82. Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.
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#83. Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.
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#84. 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.
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#85. The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.
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#86. There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want.
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#87. I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.
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#88. This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.
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#89. I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.
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#90. I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.
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#91. People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
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#92. Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
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#93. U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.
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#94. I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
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#95. I thought if people were going to talk about what I wear, wouldn't it be good if they were talking about who designed it, who made it and if that's a Scottish company, so teaming up with Totty Rocks has been fantastic.
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#96. My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.
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#97. I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.
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#98. Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries.
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#99. If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.
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#100. If something can be proven to work, we should try it ... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.
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