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" Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on! "
Nicola Sturgeon
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" The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people. "
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Scottish
Decision
" 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. "
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Independence
Protect
Nation
" People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard. "
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Want
Back
Days
" One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. "
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World
People
Over
" 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. "
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Tax
Know
Protection
" 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. "
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Country
You
People
" Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16. "
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Think
Party
Lead
" English businesses would face massive transaction costs if Scotland, their second biggest export market, used a different currency. "
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Different
Used
Market
" I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Worry
Politics
Governance
" Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Independent
Day
Think
" I'm not going to do anything that sees a Tory government be likely. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Going
Anything
Tory
" Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Labour
End
Clear
" 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. "
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War
End
Bring
" 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. "
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People
Modern
Think
" In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Own
Want
Balance
" I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Environment
Our
Risk
" Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Experience
Important
Talent
" The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Me
Who
Teachers
" 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
Change
People
Long
" People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor. "
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Being
Scotland
Take
" An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Now
Stop
Taxes
" People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Think
Sometimes
People
" I think you should always aim for more. "
Nicola Sturgeon
More
Think
Always
" The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. "
Nicola Sturgeon
View
More
Debate
" Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Matters
People
Personal
" I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny. "
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You
Very
Politicians
" It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Boxes
Elections
Opinion
" 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. "
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Lost
People
Myself
" Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Scotland
Margaret Thatcher
Never
" The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Women
Society
Men