Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

I'm not giving up politics entirely - I'm just giving up leadership of a political party.

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

Politics is too big a game to feel the absence of a Kamal Haasan.

I cannot be clearer about this. I am not in politics, let alone Labour's shadow cabinet, to keep things as they are.

He was my favorite senator... I love him. He made the liberals squeal.

I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work! I don't really have the personality for that.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

I don't have to be in politics.

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I'm not a politician or political animal.

I have no political aspirations. That's it.

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.

I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Politics can bring a lot of happiness, but you can also experience a lot of unhappiness.

When you are not running for office, the people in the party listen to you more.

When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.

The president was not the most important political player in the 19th century. Besides Jefferson at the beginning, Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln, the center of politics was Congress.

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

The SNP became a minority government in 2007, then a majority one in 2011. But Labour viewed what was happening as some kind of aberration. They felt the problem wasn't theirs: they didn't have to change; the Scottish people had just gone down this wrong road, and if they waited long enough, they would find their way back.

Bring me another bad one, and I shall protect my British people - I brought down Thatcher to protect my people, and I'm bringing down Tony to defend them, and I'll be there for any other dangers that come along.

No one in my family had ever been in politics. My dad thought it was something that got in the way.

I was not born for politics.