Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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Nicola Sturgeon

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 19, 1970

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

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Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for.

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Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident.

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Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.

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Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

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Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well.

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I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible.

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The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch.

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There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

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Glasgow is a great city.

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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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I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long.

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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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A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people.

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One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident.

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

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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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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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Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.

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It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.

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