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" Since I became First Minister, I have made clear my priority to alleviate poverty and tackle inequality in Scotland. Ensuring that everyone can do better in life will not only make Scotland fairer, but it will also make it a more prosperous place. "

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" I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say. "

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" True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off. "

" Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career. "

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

" I've not hidden and I'll never hide the fact that I want Scotland to be an independent country. But as long as we're part of the Westminster system, it's really important to people in Scotland that we get good decisions coming out of Westminster. So we've got a vested interest in being a constructive participant. "

" I think the Tories are doing - and are intent on doing - damage to things I hold dear. "

" I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case. "

" I drove my mum and dad mad. "

" 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. "

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

" It still annoys me when I read really derogatory things about how a woman looks because you would usually not read these things about a man, and that still has the potential to put women off public life. "

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" Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher. "

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

" I consider myself a selfie specialist. "

" 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. "

" Instead of an end to austerity, Labour has made clear that it wants to impose more austerity cuts. "

" If there are healthy - and growing - numbers of people working and paying taxes, we are better able to pay the costs of people living longer. "

" If something can be proven to work, we should try it... Making sure that our young folk get the best education is the only thing that matters to me, and if something can be shown to work in doing that or if something's worth trying to do that, then I'll certainly be in the market for it. "

" People who think of a nationalist party sometimes think 'inward-looking and parochial.' The kind of nationalism I represent is the opposite of that. "

" 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. "

" I am quite hot-headed; I am quite impulsive. Fortunately, it doesn't last very long. "

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" I think it is important the communities are listened to and that their voice is heard, particularly with local government boundaries more than parliamentary boundaries, because you are talking very much about communities. It can be a very emotive thing. "

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

" I came into politics because of my opposition to what a Tory Government was doing to the community I grew up in. "

" I think Scotland will become an independent country. I've always believed that. It means that if I'm right on that, there has to be another referendum at some stage. But the timing and circumstances of that will require careful judgment. "

" Poverty is on the increase - due to welfare cuts - and demand for food banks has rocketed. "

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

" It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes. "