If I have learned one thing in life, it is never to take any man's own estimate of himself. He could very well be mistaken.

I will not promise what I cannot deliver. And I will never hide the cost of what I propose.

Scotland cannot be the only 'something for nothing' country in the world.

The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.

Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.

While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.