SNP Quotes

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

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

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.

I take responsibility for everything that happens in the SNP as leader.

I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.

Over the next few days we want cities, towns and villages across the UK to send a message to Scotland: stay with us.

I totally rule out any arrangements with the SNP — in the same way I rule out any arrangements with Ukip - because there is no meeting point for me with one party that basically wants to pull our country to bits and another party that wants us to pull out of the EU. I would never recommend to the Liberal Democrats that we help establish a government which is basically on a life support system, where Alex Salmond could pull the plug any time he wants.

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

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

I love Britain. It really worries me, the prospect of Ed Miliband propped up by Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP and what that could do to our country. It's absolutely right that we highlight to voters that potential risk.

My pledge to you is that the SNP will put women and gender equality right at the heart of the Westminster agenda.

The SNP are far from radical, but they do have a knack for producing the odd simple, progressive policy that's hard to argue against.

Vote SNP for a party that always stands up for Scotland, that is stronger for Scotland, and a government that will keep the country moving in the right direction.

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

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.