197 Quotes by Nicola Sturgeon

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.

Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important.

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.

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.

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.

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

My political awakening, if I can be as grand as to call it that, was all about what was happening around me. It wasn't some romantic, patriotic vision of Scotland going back to what it had been 300 years previously.

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.