Nicola Sturgeon Government Quotations

A minority government can't govern without support from other parties.

Scotland has been re-energized, and people all over the country have become involved in - and informed about - politics and government in a way that I have never known before. In short, we have put ourselves firmly in control of our country.

For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.

Parties that win elections should form the government, not parties that lose elections.

Under the Fixed Term Parliaments Act, it is possible for other parties to change the direction of a government without bringing a government down.

The Scottish Government will continue to do all it can to get people into work.

Ed Balls has made it crystal clear that, left to its own devices, a Labour government would simply carry on with the same budget policies as the Tories.

Not once in my life has the Tory Party come anywhere close to winning an election in Scotland, and yet, for more than half my life, we have had a Tory government. That is wrong and undemocratic.

I'm not going to do anything that heralds in a Tory government.

It would be a very odd chancellor of any UK government that insisted on a course of action that cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds, that blew a massive hole in their balance of payments and, because assets and liabilities go hand in hand, would potentially leave the rest of the UK shouldering the entirety of UK debt.

The U.K. government sets a cap on how much can be spent on discretionary housing payments.