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" 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. "

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" I'm manifestly not the same as Alex Salmond. I'm a different gender, for example... I'm being flippant, but maybe this is a partly gender-driven difference: I'm very keen that we find a way of reaching out across party divides to find things we agree on, as well as the things we disagree on. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. "

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

" Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image. "

" 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. "

" I consider myself a selfie specialist. "

" Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country. "

" My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax. "

" The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world. "

" Twitter's probably my bad habit. "

" Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic. "

" 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. "

" Tory governments are bad for Scotland. "

" 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. "

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

" Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down. "

" Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes things happen in life, sometimes they don't. Don't get me wrong: I have no regrets - if I could turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, I wouldn't want to fundamentally change the path my life has taken. "

" An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. "

" 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. "

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

Nicola Sturgeon

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" The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work. "

" 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. "

" I hope nobody in England is afraid of the SNP - there is absolutely no need to be. "

" I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit. "

" 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. "

" I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments. "