Scottish - Politician | July 19, 1970 -
I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.
Nicola Sturgeon
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People don't want to go back to the days, pre-referendum, when the Westminster establishment sidelined and ignored Scotland. They want Scotland's voice to be heard.
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I don't know Ed Miliband as a person particularly well.
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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.
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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.
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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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Is it not typical that we have a Tory Government that wants, just like its pals in the Labour Party, constantly to talk down Scotland's prospects?
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This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.
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It is clear that my predecessor as First Minister is frightening the life out of the Tories and the Labour Party. Long may it continue.
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Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.
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I have said repeatedly I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than the other parties. Because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services, and in lifting people out of poverty.
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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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