Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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Nicola Sturgeon

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 19, 1970

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor.

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English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency.

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The U.K.'s debt belongs legally to Westminster, so Scotland, by definition, can't default on it.

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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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Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit.

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I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be.

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The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.

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If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.'

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I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

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As First Minister, I will always act in the best interests of the country. As party leader, I will always act in the best interests of the party, and if that sometimes means taking difficult, unpalatable decisions, I will never shy away from that.

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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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I was studious and bookish. Not just as a child but also as a teenager. I took myself too seriously.

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Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.

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The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true.

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