Quotes from Nicola Sturgeon

I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will.

There are lots of jobs and investment in Scotland dependent on our membership of the E.U. single market.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

There was nothing in my childhood that said, 'She's going to be first minister of the country one day.'

Would I love to think that one day I would be First Minister of an independent Scotland? Of course.

Trespass, the outdoor clothing company based in the South Side, is run by two of the nicest guys and proudest Glaswegians you could meet, Afzal and Akmal Khushi.

American companies based in Scotland employ large numbers of people - in fact, we are the best performing part of the U.K., outside London and the southeast of England when it comes to attracting foreign direct investment.

Twitter's probably my bad habit.

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for years has always been a cruel and heartless measure, and so it is good that the Scottish Parliament has been able to step in.

I consider myself a selfie specialist.

I drove my mum and dad mad.

The fact is that co-operation between independent countries - to our mutual advantage - is the way of the modern world.

I've got absolutely no desire or intention of damaging England.

My message is a simple one - the E.U. is not perfect, but Scotland's interests are best served by being a member.

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.

I do struggle to identify an occasion when I was held back because I'm a woman... You don't think about it at the time, but looking back at it, of course.

Maybe unlike a lot of people who join the SNP today, I never had any expectation of a political career.

I've had particularly unpleasant stuff, and it has been reported that I've had death threats. Twitter and Facebook give people who have always been out there a platform from which to hurl abuse, and all I can do is try to block it out and remind myself that tweets are transient and get lost in the ether after a few moments.

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

The oil and gas sector in the North Sea does have a strong future if we do the right things now, but we've got to make sure that the infrastructure is right to support the sector, but also to support, over the next few years, diversification as well.

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.

Maybe its time for politicians to fight back a little bit in terms of this notion that politicians are all in it for themselves, we're all the same, we're not driven by sincere motives. Because the fact of the matter is the vast majority are.

I admire Obama.

I think you should always aim for more.