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" I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Good
Care
Live
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" I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Earth
Wrong
Wonder
" The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. "
Nicola Sturgeon
History
Scottish
Importance
" I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Independence
Choose
Out
" My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Political
Years
Were
" One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. "
Nicola Sturgeon
World
People
Over
" 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. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Living
Healthy
Growing
" 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. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Tax
Know
Protection
" Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Power
Past
In The Past
" I like Indian takeaway. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Indian
Like
" 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. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Balls
Crystal
Own
" I am a believer in people succeeding on merit. "
Nicola Sturgeon
People
Succeeding
Merit
" It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Vote
Serious
Think
" Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Losing
Measure
Step
" Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Independent
Day
Think
" Twitter's probably my bad habit. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Twitter
Bad
Bad Habit
" The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work. "
Nicola Sturgeon
People
Scottish
Will
" 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? "
Nicola Sturgeon
Government
Like
Party
" Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Career
Political
Motivation
" At these big set-piece events like the leaders' debates, that exterior of calm and serenity is nothing compared to what's going on inside most of the time. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Nothing
Events
Time
" 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. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Talking
Done
Kind
" 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. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Decisions
Country
Leader
" Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Rules
Should
Clearly
" I drove my mum and dad mad. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Dad
Mum And Dad
Mum
" 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. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Long
Win
Places
" A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Health
Duty
Safe
" Literally every time I'm on camera, as well as there being commentary on what I've said, there'll be commentary on what my hair looked like, what I wear. Often it's written in the most hideous and quite cruel way. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Camera
Way
Time
" Scotch beef, salmon and shellfish are recognised the world over for their excellence and Scottish provenance. People recognise the Scottish brand. They associate the country with quality food and drink, and clearly other Scottish sectors, such as dairy, can benefit from that, too. "
Nicola Sturgeon
People
Food
Excellence
" Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. "
Nicola Sturgeon
Unique
Almost
Relationship
" I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty. "
Nicola Sturgeon
See
Want
Said
" 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