Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon - Page 4

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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Day To Day
Strategy
Voting
Basis
Overall
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American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K., outside London and the southeast of England when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Investment
Large Numbers
Numbers
Performing
Scotland
Best People American
American Companies
Attracting
Employ
Southeast
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I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Advice
Breathe
Fame
Lovely
Sean
Voice
Did
Claim
Coach
Connery
Drop
Project
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Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Balance
Balance Of Power
Historic
Normal
Scotland
Streets
Together
Westminster
Aside
Communities
Corridor
Divisions
Let Us
Moment
One Country
Seize
Shift
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I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Deficit
Lifting
Invest
Eliminate
Parties
Repeatedly
Services
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Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Social Media
Ignore
Immediate
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Ensure
Minister
Wee
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I think Scotland will become an independent country. I've always believed that. It means that if I'm right on that, there has to be another referendum at some stage. But the timing and circumstances of that will require careful judgment.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Circumstances
Scotland
Timing
Referendum
Require
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I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Scotland
Respect People Will
Desperately
Respect Country People
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Labour
Done People Anything
Coherent
People Done More
Prospect
Tories
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Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Scotland
Politics Government People
Firmly
Informed
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Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Independence
Protect
Scotland
Within
Then
Cannot
Changing
Nation
Consider
Fundamentally
Interests
Options
Right
Region
We Cannot
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Driven
Notion
Sincere
Vast
Motives
Vast Majority
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We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U.K. - spending on social protection takes up a smaller share of our economic output and our tax revenues than is the case in the U.K. as a whole.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Affordable
Output
Protection
Scotland
Social Security
Revenues
Smaller
Tax Revenues
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If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Engaged
Growth
Lifetime
Membership
Neighbour
Base
Pal
Telly
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Equality
Business
Believe
Democrat
Earning
Economy
Greater
Justice
Social
Social Justice
Strong
Strong Economy
Tackling
Wealth
Am
Base
Possible
Got
Makes
Pursuing
Unless
Vibrant
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Best Always Difficult
Best Interests
Minister
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Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Alleviate
Inequality
Prosperous
Scotland
Life Better Will
Ensuring
Fairer
Minister
Tackle
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Diversification
Gas
Infrastructure
Oil
Sea
Right Things
Sector
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I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries, because you are talking very much about communities. It can be a very emotive thing.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Government
Boundaries
Heard
Local Government
Parliamentary
Talking
Voice
Communities
Emotive
Listened
Local
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Labour long ago realised it could no longer automatically assume that it would win elections in Glasgow and other places where it has taken people's votes for granted for decades - as we have seen across Scotland at local council and Holyrood elections.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Council
Decades
Glasgow
Granted
Labour
Realised
Scotland
Assume
Automatically
Votes
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Because of lower life expectancy in Scotland - something that we are working hard to improve - the average woman will get £11,000 less in pension payments than counterparts in the rest of the U.K., even though she will pay exactly the same in contributions.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Average
Counterparts
Expectancy
Life Expectancy
Pay
Scotland
Contributions
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Rest
Lower
Payments
Working Hard
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Bedroom
Heartless
Losing
Parliament
Possibility
Scottish
Cruel
Forcing
Homes
Measure
Rent
Spare
Step
Taxing
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I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Independence
Comfortable
Disappear
Existential
Identity
Independent
Scotland
Confident
Preserve
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Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Beef
Dairy
Excellence
Recognise
Salmon
Scotch
Associate
Benefit
Clearly
Sectors
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If something can be proven to work, we should try it... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Proven
Education Best Work
Folk
Shown
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I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
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Friendly
Loyal
Describe
Shine
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Disagree
Divides
Reaching
For Example
Partly
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Parliamentary
Shadow
Term
Minister
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This is about sending a very strong message that Scotland does want to stay in the European Union and we're an open country, a good place to live, work, study and to do business and it's really important as we take forward what will be challenging work ahead of us, that we send those messages.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Challenging Work
Country
Strong
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Constructive
Scotland
Westminster
Hidden
Participant
Vested
Vested Interest
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The SNP became a minority government in 2007, then a majority one in 2011. But Labour viewed what was happening as some kind of aberration. They felt the problem wasn't theirs: they didn't have to change; the Scottish people had just gone down this wrong road, and if they waited long enough, they would find their way back.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Aberration
Labour
Scottish
Minority
Viewed
Waited
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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.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Abuse
Block
Transient
Twitter And Facebook
Death Myself Always
Ether
Facebook
Hurl
Platform
Remind
Reported
Threats
Tweets
Unpleasant
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It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Government
Balance
Hands
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We all need support and friendship, regardless of circumstances. But where do people turn when friends and family are simply no longer there, or can't help us through a difficult time, or need all our care and attention and can't give us any in return? Thank goodness for befriending projects, who help fill the empty spaces where care, support and a listening ear need to be.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
Space
Listening Ear
People
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These are human beings with real lives and the uncertainty and the fear that any of them face right now could be ended at a stroke if we had all the candidates for prime minister simply say that the right to remain here is not in question and I call again upon Theresa May and on the current prime minster to do that. That would be the humane thing to do and I even at this stage hope that that's a direction they will take.
Nicola Sturgeon / First Minister Of Scotland
May
Real
Would Be
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