Scottish - Politician | July 19, 1970 -
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.
Nicola Sturgeon
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If your pal or neighbour is in the SNP, you're more likely to listen to them than if you just turn on the telly and see me or Alex. The growth of membership is building a politically engaged community base that hasn't been there in my lifetime.
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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.
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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.
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I'm the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.
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The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.
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Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters.
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Clearly, any issues about breaching of expenses rules should be properly investigated.
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Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point?
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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.
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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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I'm not making any secret of the fact I still believe in independence. We'll continue to argue the case.
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