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

Nicola Sturgeon

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" Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues. "

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" The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. "

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" There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market. "

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" My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously. "

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