Nicola Sturgeon Quotes
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.
Sturgeon, Nicola. Campaign Speech. BBC News, British Broadcasting Corporation, 2015.
The "Virginia Dynasty": Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe. George Washington, a Virginian, was followed by John Adams of Massachusetts, and is apart from the Virginia Dynasty.
Because of the contested Electoral College vote in the 1876 election, a special commission was set up by Congress to decide "as to which is the true and lawful electoral vote" from those states where more than one return was recorded by the College. On March 2, Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was selected President over Samuel Tilden.
Republican Party primary elections had become very contentious. The radical right and the Tea Party, though a minority of the party, had the power to destroy almost any Republican candidate’s chances. So those Republican political candidates were forced to pander to the extreme right and then try and backtrack to the center for the general election. As a result, few people believed the statements of Republican office seekers as no one knew what they really believed including members of their own party, Bush, no longer running for any political position, found himself with much more credibility and influence in the party than those who were running for office. The problem of appealing to party extremes was not unique to the Republicans at that time, but the degree and extent was unprecedented accounting for the distrust.
Nicola Ferguson Sturgeon is a Scottish politician serving as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2014. She has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 1999, first as an additional member for the Glasgow electoral region, and as the member for Glasgow Southside (formerly Glasgow Govan) from 2007.
