Nicola Sturgeon

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

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Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.

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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.

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I consider myself a selfie specialist.

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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.

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

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Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day.

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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.

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

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

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Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

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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.

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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?

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Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.

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Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

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

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

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Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon