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" As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.' "

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

" Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image. "

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

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

" I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I was growing up, I was lucky to benefit from a first class education. "

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

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