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" I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny. "
Nicola Sturgeon
You
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" I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear. "
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" I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say. "
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" Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it. "
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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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" Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career. "
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" As a veteran of many campaigns, I know how important it is not let up in the last few days. "
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" Being a housewife is not important to me, but I'm never happier than when I come home and shut the door. "
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" Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland. "
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" Glasgow is a great city. "
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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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" 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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" The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. "
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" Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. "
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" I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook. "
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" 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. "
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" People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that. "
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" 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. "
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" I drove my mum and dad mad. "
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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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" Twitter's probably my bad habit. "
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" Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. "
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" Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions. "
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" I take responsibility for everything that happens in the SNP as leader. "
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" I admire Obama. "
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" Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on! "
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" I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is. "
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" Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated. "
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" 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. "
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" There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country. "
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