Alex Salmond Quotes

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For me as leader my time is nearly over but for Scotland the campaign continues and the dream will never die,

Alex Salmond
I do not want to be separate from anything. I want for my country to be joined in co-operation and mutual respect—on a footing of equality—with all the nations of Europe.

Alex Salmond
We unite behind a declaration of self-evident truth. The people who live in Scotland are best placed to make the decisions that affect Scotland. We want a Scotland that's greener, that's fairer and more prosperous. We realise that the power of an independent Scotland is necessary to achieve these great ends... By the time we enter the referendum campaign in autumn 2014, our intention is to have one million Scots who have signed the independence for Scotland declaration. Friends, if we achieve that, then we shall win an independent Scotland.

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The Scottish parliament is our passport to independence.

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There is not an anti-English bone in my body. I have forgotten more about English history than most Tory MPs ever learnt.

Alex Salmond
The SNP's commitment to a Bill of Rights and written constitution means that we will outlaw any discrimination but we also have to eradicate it from the dark recesses of the Scottish psyche. We also have to speak out against institutionalised discrimination. For example, it is a scandal of some considerable proportions that no Catholic can sit on the throne, or marry the heir to the throne — an attitude entrenched in law that belongs to the archaic arrangements of the eighteenth century, not the bright prospects of the twenty-first.

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It would be much easier if we had the full powers of an independent country. Therefore I was anticipating being in that position by 2017.

Alex Salmond
It is an act of dubious legality, but above all one of unpardonable folly. [The bombing] may make matters even worse for the very people it is meant to be helping... if we are to sanction intervention in Serbia then the policy must be capable of achieving two things. It must be capable of weakening Milosevic and helping Kosovo. A bombing campaign will do neither, indeed the chances are it will make both worse.

Alex Salmond
She is the living memorial as to why Scots want their own parliament.

Alex Salmond