Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I bow to no one in my ambition to see Glasgow be as successful as it possibly can be. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Related Quotes:

" 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

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" Tory governments are bad for Scotland. "

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Nicola Sturgeon

" My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me. "

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Nicola Sturgeon

" Tax credits are designed to help people who work hard but who, through no fault of their own, don't earn enough to keep their families out of poverty. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" 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

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

Nicola Sturgeon

" Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction. "

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Nicola Sturgeon

" If there is a 'Leave' vote in England and across the U.K. as a whole, then we see the reins of power being seized by politicians who are on the right of the Conservative party. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.' "

Nicola Sturgeon

" 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

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" 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

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Nicola Sturgeon

Working Together

" 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

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Nicola Sturgeon

" I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government. "

Nicola Sturgeon

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

Nicola Sturgeon

" In particular, I want to set a challenge to public bodies and private companies to improve gender balance on their own boards. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" Polls can change; people's opinions can change. Voting intentions can change, and I think it would be a silly leader, a silly political party, that would assume that we have it sewn up. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" 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. "

Nicola Sturgeon

" 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