Scottish Politics Quotes

If you aim at a Scottish presbytery, it agrees as well with monarchy as God and the devil.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

Many of the Victorian and Edwardian activists who campaigned for Irish home rule, for instance, also wanted what they called 'home rule all round': separate parliaments not simply for Ireland but also for the Scots and the Welsh - and for the English.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

The SNP talks a lot - but they have proved that they cannot deliver.

When we vote to leave, I think a majority of people in Scotland will also vote to leave as well.

The Scottish Labour Party, while I have breath in my body, will listen to the views of trade unionists.

Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.

Scottish politics, U.K. politics, is not really like American politics in this respect. Not everybody is absolutely obsessed with image. I'm not saying the United States is obsessed with image.

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

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

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.

I've always been hopeful about Scotland's prospects. And I now believe more than ever that Scotland is within touching distance of achieving independence and equality.

The media already attempts to assassinate my character in Scotland when I'm there, so my position is much more effective if I'm outside Scotland and am part of the voice of what the Scottish National Party is about.

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any more. Any doubt I had about that was cast aside for ever when I saw Gordon Brown cosying up to Margaret Thatcher in Downing Street.

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 the leader of the SNP. I think you would expect me to say I would vote SNP in whatever constituency I lived in.

Independence is the only way Scotland can realise its full political and cultural potential in the 21st century.

I want to change Scotland, but the only way we can change Scotland is by changing the Scottish Labour Party.

We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories but then let them run our economy. We will face up to the Tories, and we will beat them.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of an independent Scotland.

Gordon Brown now bestrides politics and the media like the Colossus of Dunfermline. Whatever happened to Tony Blair?

People in Scotland want to have Scotland in the UK and the UK in the EU, and that's what the Liberal Democrats are arguing for.

The nobles will stand by the crown and the crown must stand by them … except the Campbells.

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.