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

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.

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

Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital.

People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.

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

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax.

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners.

Glasgow is a great city.

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

I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.

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

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.

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

I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely.

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

I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.

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.

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

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

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.

Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day.

True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.

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

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

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country.

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way.

I've not had a deliberate image makeover.

I am privileged to count many Muslims among my friends - some are amongst my closest friends.

I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say.

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

Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

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

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards.

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population.

As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days.

It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.

If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world.

We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history.

I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family ... and always will.

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

There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.

I am a believer in people succeeding on merit.

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now.

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other.

Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed.

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.

Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues.

I take responsibility for everything that happens in the SNP as leader.

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

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

Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.

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

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

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

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.

I drove my mum and dad mad.

I think you should always aim for more.

Scotland's voice has to be heard

Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts.

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.

I hope nobody in England is afraid of the SNP - there is absolutely no need to be.

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

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world.

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments.

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people.

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care.

Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection.

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

U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.

I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.

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

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

I like Indian takeaway.

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists.

Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?

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.

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

I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.

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.

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

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