110+ Nicola Sturgeon Quotes Empowering Change on Politics and Progress

Nicola Sturgeon is the current First Minister of Scotland, and the leader of the Scottish National Party. She was appointed to the role in 2014, and is the first woman to hold the position. Sturgeon has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament since 1999, and she has also served as Deputy First Minister of Scotland from 2007 to 2014. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Nicola Sturgeon on education, democracy, death.

Top 10 Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

1. We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it.
2. 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.
3. This government and the party that I lead will continue to argue an alternative to the Tory-Labour austerity.
4. Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image.
5. I feel comfortable in a position of leadership, but that's not to say I feel complacent about it. I take it incredibly seriously.
6. Scotland never voted for Margaret Thatcher.
7. There's nothing in my background that would have said I was destined to be a senior politician.
8. I don't cook very often. Actually, I'd go further: I can't cook.
9. Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very far.
10. 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.

Nicola Sturgeon Short Quotes

• I'm a politician, and as you know, politicians are rarely very funny.
• Men - the colour of their tie is the most difficult decision they have to make every day.
• Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!
• Some of the brightest and best women in our society are stifled in their ambitions.
• It's not opinion polls that determine the outcome of elections, it's votes in ballot boxes.
• I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.
• I drove my mum and dad mad.
• True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.
• Personally, I can think of no greater privilege than to lead the party I joined when I was just 16.
• I think you should always aim for more.

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About Education

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

A good education is the most important gift we can give our young people. — Nicola Sturgeon

The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About Love

I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

I've never had a voice coach, but I am about to name drop horrendously here: I did once get some advice on how to project my voice from Sean Connery, which was lovely. It's all about where you breathe. That's my claim to fame. — Nicola Sturgeon

I love talking to the public, I love hearing what people have got to say. — Nicola Sturgeon

So after a lovely family Xmas day, this 80s teen is off to bed feeling a bit sad, but listening to this masterpiece [George Michael: I can't make you love me]. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About Scotland

An independent Scotland could afford pensions full stop - after all, it is our taxes and national insurance contributions that fund them now. — Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland has a great deal to offer the world in terms of our approach to key economic and social issues. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

Voting Labour in the past hasn't protected Scotland against Tory governments. — Nicola Sturgeon

I don't feel we need to be independent for me to feel confident in my Scottish identity. I think Scotland is pretty comfortable in its identity. We won't need independence to preserve it... if we don't become independent, it won't disappear; it isn't under existential threat. — Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland's relationship with Malawi is perhaps unique - with almost every town or village in Scotland having some connection. — Nicola Sturgeon

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U. — Nicola Sturgeon

I desperately want Scotland to be an independent country. I cannot, though, sit here and tell you definitively that it will happen, and that it will happen on this timescale, because I have to respect the opinion of the people of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon

It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About England

I hope nobody in England is afraid of the SNP - there is absolutely no need to be. — Nicola Sturgeon

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K., outside London and the southeast of England when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About Labour

The fact is Scottish Labour has lost its way. — Nicola Sturgeon

Labour's support in Scotland depends on their ability to be electable. If they are divided and unelectable, what's the point? — Nicola Sturgeon

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories. — Nicola Sturgeon

The U.K. needs a strong opposition, and Labour shows no signs of being capable of being that. The SNP is filling that void and will go on seeking to do that. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About Tory

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government. — Nicola Sturgeon

If you have a Tory government at Westminster that takes us out of Europe against our will, there may be people in Scotland who think, 'You know what, we might be better off independent.' — Nicola Sturgeon

People in Scotland don't take too kindly to being lectured by a Tory Chancellor. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

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

Tory governments are bad for Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Quotes About Politics

Thatcher was the motivation for my entire political career. I hated everything she stood for. — Nicola Sturgeon

My early years as a political activist were dominated by the poll tax. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland. — Nicola Sturgeon

I was very proud, on just my second day in office, to appoint a gender-balanced cabinet - one of only three in the developed world. — Nicola Sturgeon

Nicola Sturgeon Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

I am a social democrat - I believe in pursuing greater equality and tackling social justice - but... you can't do that unless you have got a strong economy, unless you have got a vibrant business base earning the wealth that makes that possible. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

Literally every time I'm on camera, as well as there being commentary on what I've said, there'll be commentary on what my hair looked like, what I wear. Often it's written in the most hideous and quite cruel way. — Nicola Sturgeon

I and Alex Salmond are not in competition - we are on the same side; we are on the same team, working together. — Nicola Sturgeon

I believe we should support people to live, and I am therefore in favour of good quality palliative care. — Nicola Sturgeon

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

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

I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. — Nicola Sturgeon

The debate around the ageing population should, in my view, focus much more on how we grow the active, working population. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

I've not had a deliberate image makeover. — Nicola Sturgeon

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member. — Nicola Sturgeon

For parents - women in particular - good quality, affordable childcare is vital. — Nicola Sturgeon

Glasgow is a great city. — Nicola Sturgeon

I'll be arguing for Scotland to vote to stay in the E.U. — Nicola Sturgeon

There is nothing in your background that inherently holds you back or means you can't achieve what others can achieve. You are the master of your own fate, and if you work hard, you can do what you want. — Nicola Sturgeon

If Scotland was independent, we'd be the 14th richest country in the developed world. — Nicola Sturgeon

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda. — Nicola Sturgeon

I am quite a shy person. You say that to people, and they say, 'You do interviews, speeches. How can you be shy?' But, fundamentally, I am. — Nicola Sturgeon

I like Indian takeaway. — Nicola Sturgeon

Scotland is not a region of the U.K.; Scotland is a nation, and if we cannot protect our interests within a U.K. that is going to be changing fundamentally, then that right of Scotland to consider the options of independence has to be there. — Nicola Sturgeon

Governments in countries across the world have a duty to do everything possible to keep the public safe from terrorist attacks. — Nicola Sturgeon

Haggis is delicious. It is wonderful. It's spicy, it's tasty, and you get vegetarian haggis as well. — Nicola Sturgeon

I consider myself a selfie specialist. — Nicola Sturgeon

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the case anymore. — Nicola Sturgeon

One of the attributes Glasgow is best known for all over the world is the friendliness of her people. — Nicola Sturgeon

Many people from many different walks of life have marriages that break up, and those are deeply personal, deeply painful but ultimately private matters. — Nicola Sturgeon

We already know that social security is more affordable in Scotland than it is in the rest of the U.K. - spending on social protection takes up a smaller share of our economic output and our tax revenues than is the case in the U.K. as a whole. — Nicola Sturgeon

One thing we've learned is that there's not anything that Nigel Farage won't blame on foreigners. — Nicola Sturgeon

The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people. — Nicola Sturgeon

One of Ed Miliband's shadow ministers has said he would never vote for the renewal of Trident. — Nicola Sturgeon

What a war in Iraq will not do is bring about peace in the Middle East or end the injustices that feed resentment and breed terrorists. — Nicola Sturgeon

An independent Scotland - like all countries - will face challenges, and we will have our ups and downs. But the decisions about how we use our wealth will be ours. — Nicola Sturgeon

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. — Nicola Sturgeon

The total impact of the Tory/Liberal tax, welfare and public spending changes has hit the poorest 10% in society disproportionately hard - and women have been affected even more badly than men. — Nicola Sturgeon

I wish we lived in a world where how you looked or what you wore wasn't an issue for men or women, and it's by and large not an issue for men, so I wish it wasn't an issue for women, but it is. — Nicola Sturgeon

My politics are wildly different from hers, but someone who has been good for women in politics, stamped her authority on European and world affairs, is Angela Merkel. — Nicola Sturgeon

Of course, aid is only one small part of international development. Some of the greatest benefits to the world's poorest can be achieved through policy changes by developed countries. — Nicola Sturgeon

London has a centrifugal pull on talent, investment and business from the rest of Europe and the world. That brings benefits to the broader U.K. economy. — Nicola Sturgeon

I know you've got to earn people's trust, and you've got to earn it day after day after day. — Nicola Sturgeon

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties. — Nicola Sturgeon

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

Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction. — Nicola Sturgeon

The fact that healthier lifestyles and advances in medicine mean that we are living longer is actually something to be celebrated. — Nicola Sturgeon

Twitter's probably my bad habit. — Nicola Sturgeon

It is hard to overstate the economic importance of the U.S.A. to Scotland, and that makes it essential that we engage with companies and potential investors and get the message across that we are open for business. — Nicola Sturgeon

Equality and prosperity shouldn't be seen as enemies of each other, but as partners. One reinforces the other. — Nicola Sturgeon

Life Lessons by Nicola Sturgeon

1. Nicola Sturgeon has demonstrated the importance of strong leadership and the power of collaboration in achieving success.
2. She has also shown that it is possible to make a difference in politics and to inspire change, even in the face of adversity.
3. Finally, her commitment to social justice and her dedication to creating a fairer, more equal society are lessons that can be applied to any field of work.