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“My concentration has to be on making sure the party delivers. If we deliver, we'll be seen as credible. And if we are seen as credible, people will continue to support us.”
“I've thought to myself, 'goodness, is there more that I can take personally' because I also come under a tremendous amount of abuse online and, unfortunately, sometimes face to face.”
“Childcare will be absolutely central to my plans in terms of tackling poverty. In fact, I would say childcare is the perfect example of an initiative that is both pro-growth and anti-poverty.”
“I know a thing or two about people in Scotland, having knocked on as many doors as I have, and they don't like people taking them for granted.”
“As uncomfortable as this may be for some, the truth is that an independent Scotland can only benefit from both a Labour party true to its own roots and a strong, progressive SNP.”
“People who looked like me were not in positions of political influence, let alone leading governments when I was younger.”
“Not only is Elon Musk Islamophobic, I think he is somebody who clearly has White supremacist, far-right sympathies.”
“Whether we are independent or not, I will use every single day to try and make Scotland a better country, a more equal country.”
“You tend to make your mistakes when you think like a politician in a political bubble and you forget the human dimension.”
“In my opinion Elon Musk is one of the most dangerous men on the planet.”
“If you grow that economy, you increase the tax base, you increase the revenue that you can spend on anti-poverty measures.”
“I've lived my whole life as a minority in this country, and my rights don't exist in a vacuum. My rights are completely interdependent on everybody else's rights and if they are attacking the rights of our trans community or anybody who is in a marginalized minority community, then they'll come for me next.”
“Divided parties just don't win elections.”
“Sovereignty should lie with the people of Scotland, not a Westminster Government we didn't vote for with the ability to overrule our laws.”
“What we have to do is create the political conditions that are such that the Westminster political parties cannot deny Scotland's voice.”
“Look, I think if I have not advanced the cause of independence, if I have not achieved independence as an SNP First Minister, then that yeah, that will be one failure I'm afraid that people will certainly take alongside my name.”
“Having those back channels for any government or any political parties where there's disagreement, differences... those backchannels are worth their weight in gold.”
“My starting point is that I've been a minority in this country for my whole life. I have understood that you have to fight for your rights but my rights don't exist in a vacuum or an isolation. They only exist because other people's rights exist too.”
“We believe in independence because this unequal Union has caused so much suffering and so much harm.”
“If the SNP is not winning, then the independence cause isn't either.”