Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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Nicola Sturgeon

Profession : Politician

Birth : July 19, 1970

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

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Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.

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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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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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Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.

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Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?

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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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I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.

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Our MPs will take decisions on how they're voting on a day-to-day basis. But I'm the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine.

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I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as we're part of the Westminster system, it's really important to people in Scotland that we get good decisions coming out of Westminster. So we've got a vested interest in being a constructive participant.

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I admire Obama.

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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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I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear.

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I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

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Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.

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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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It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.

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I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U.

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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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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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