Nicola Sturgeon Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nicola Sturgeon
Nicola Sturgeon Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Nicola Sturgeon on Wise Famous Quotes.
Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it.
People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that.
Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks.
Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.
I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door.
I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working together.
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.
The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated.
It's very much the currency of discourse on social media where political disagreements very quickly become very personalised.
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.
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.
Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.
I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.
There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'
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 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.