Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

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

The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.

We will govern as if we had a majority. You simply carry on with your agenda.

63 governments in 70 years is a problem in my country. So this referendum could finally give stability to the country.

I cannot be any clearer, minority governments don't work.

A real possibility now exists for a Government that is not led by either Fine Gael or Fianna Fáil

France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

In 1995 the whole political situation was very complicated. I was the first deputy prime minister, and at the same time I had very low influence in the government.

I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

A week is a long time in politics.

The characteristic condition of Italian political life is the complex stalemate.

History, indeed, records some very radical changes in the forms of government to which a state has been subjected without its interests being absolutely and permanently shipwrecked.

It now really looks as if the Government is about to fall into our hands.

England does not love coalitions.

If revolution insists upon overturning established order, let other peoples make the tragic experiment. There is no place for it in America.

All of us know that any substantial block of votes can cause trouble in the French legislature because practically any French government has to have the votes of many groups to have a majority.

We have had political parties threatening to bring down the government, talking about it but not bringing down the government. What I am focused on is the things we are in control of. The timing of a general election, we don't have control over.

Elections come and go, people win and lose, that is part of politics. It doesn't anyway change things on the ground.

If the pendulum swings, it may swing to a combination of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats and, thus, to a period of minority government or coalition, in some form.

The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

The government have only a small majority in the House of Commons. I want to make it quite clear that this will not affect our ability to govern. Having been charged with the duties of Government we intend to carry out those duties.