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" 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. "

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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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" I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well. "

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" 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. "

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

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" The truth of the matter is that countries the world over have deficits. Let us remember this about Scotland's deficit: it was not created in an independent Scotland; it was created on Westminster's watch. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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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 won't say I've never felt in Alex Salmond's shadow, but latterly, when Alex was leader, I didn't. It's more about my awareness of the fact I became First Minister during a parliamentary term. That means you're First Minister, but you haven't been elected in your own right as First Minister. "

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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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" I think you should always aim for more. "

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" I consider myself a selfie specialist. "

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" U.K. welfare cuts are pushing more children into poverty; that is beyond dispute. "

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" Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. "

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" We will never vote for the renewal of Trident; that's a decision which will fall to be made in the next Westminster parliament. We will never vote for that. "

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" I do not want to see, for any reason, the Tories resurgent in any way. "

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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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" I think the first decision I took when I became a government minister was to reverse the planned closure of Monklands Accident and Emergency. It's an issue close to my heart. "

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

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" A minority government can't govern without support from other parties. "

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

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