Nicola Sturgeon Quotes

I have huge respect for Nicola Sturgeon and for the SNP.

The Tories seem unable to make any impact north of the border.

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

Scottish nationalism has grown since we entered the European Union.

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

People in Scotland want the parliament but don't give a toss about the elections.

There wasn't a Scottish nationalist MP elected at any general election when we were outside the E.U.

Anyone who seriously wants to keep Scotland in the U.K. must seek to stop the rise of the SNP, not to fuel and encourage it.

Scotland's voice has to be heard

Like millions of Scots, I've agonised over whether to go for independence or remain with the Union.

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

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.

No one anticipated the SNP wiping out Labour in Scotland in 2015.

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!

I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'

For some time, Scotland's greatest exports to England have included whisky and Scottish MPs. Or, in the case of Charles Kennedy, both. All these links, politically, economically, culturally, are part of my Union. Would Glasgow's brilliant Commonwealth Games or the Edinburgh Festival be any better for our being independent? I doubt it.

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

As Scots, we certainly want change today, but the change the Nationalists offer is not the change we want or need.

I love England. I live and work here. My children have grown up here. I see no conflict between this and praying that my countrymen in Scotland never have to live another day under Conservative rule from London.

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.

I firmly believe that Scotland's place is in the U.K., and I do not believe in powers for power's sake.

I'm pro-union and utterly hope that Scotland stays within the United Kingdom.

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.