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" I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook. "
Nicola Sturgeon
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" Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. "
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" 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. "
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" Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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