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" For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event. "

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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

Poverty

Inequality

Life

" If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer. "

" Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point? "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The teachers who taught me at Dreghorn Primary and Greenwood Academy were fantastic. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Who

Teachers

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

" Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Come

Door

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Scottish Government's international development work began in 2005 with a £3 million budget focused solely on Malawi, reflecting the historic links between our two countries. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off. "

" I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough. "

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Women

Woman

" I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in. "

" 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. "

" I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit. "

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

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Vote

You

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

" 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. "

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

" The U.K. needs a strong opposition, and Labour shows no signs of being capable of being that. The SNP is filling that void and will go on seeking to do that. "

" I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously. "

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

" I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well. "