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" Our opposition to Trident is very clear, very firm, very long-standing, very principled, and we would seek to build an alliance to prevent the renewal of Trident. "

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" I stand here today as the first woman first minister of our country. Every day I hold this office, I will work to ensure that every woman, every wee girl across this country, gets a chance to do what I've done and follow their dream. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Today

Chance

Day

" 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. "

" We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want. "

" A whole range of things are done to ensure services remain safe and sustainable because that is the absolute paramount duty of the health board. "

" Twitter's probably my bad habit. "

" There can be no greater privilege in life than to be chosen to lead your country. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions. "

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

" I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day. "

" Our MPs will take decisions on how they're voting on a day-to-day basis. But I'm the leader of the party, and in terms of our overall strategy and how we vote on key issues, then ultimately, those decisions will be mine. "

" 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. "

" This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity. "

" The assumption that people sometimes make is that I have made a cold, calculated decision to put my career ahead of having family, and that's not true. "

" Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. "

" Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries. "

" 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. "

" I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England. "

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

" Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher. "

" One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident. "

Nicola Sturgeon

Said

Renewal

" Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course. "

" Most politicians come into politics because they want to make a difference; we just have different ideas how to do it. "

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

" Scotland almost invented the modern world. I mean, all of these televisions, telephones, penicillin, we all - all of these things were invented in Scotland. "