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" For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Parents
Women
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" A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people. "
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" Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important. "
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" The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. "
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" There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.' "
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" 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. "
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" An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. "
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" Many hard working people in low paid jobs get housing benefit. "
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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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" 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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" My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel. "
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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. "
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" I like Indian takeaway. "
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Indian
Like
" I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England. "
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Desire
" One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident. "
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He
" I hope nobody in England is afraid of the SNP - there is absolutely no need to be. "
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Nobody
Need
Hope
" I've not had a deliberate image makeover. "
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Had
" 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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Community
Government
" The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch. "
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Truth
Watch
Matter
" Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far. "
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Far
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" The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic. "
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Me
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" I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me. "
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" I admire Obama. "
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Obama
Admire
" 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. "
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Decisions
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Leader
" 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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Life
Long
Out
" A minority government can't govern without support from other parties. "
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Without
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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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" It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life. "
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" I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U. "
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" For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland. "
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Me
Women
Woman