Alex Salmond Quotations

This winning habit will stand the party in good stead as we build towards winning the 20 first-past-the-post seats we need to win the Scottish election in 2007

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire. He is a victim of his own arrogance. He may well be on the way out of office.

The prime minister has just fallen off the high wire.

We've gone from a small parliamentary party now to being a large one.

To get behind what looks like a monumental political cover-up demands a public inquiry.

It had 1,000 years as an independent nation before the union,

On the streets of Livingston people have been asking why the chancellor has failed to do his part to limit the rapid rise in petrol and diesel costs,

Nations are nations if they feel themselves to be a nation. And Scotland overwhelmingly feels itself to be a nation,

It is a war built on lies that has fanned the flames of international terrorism

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

Our internationalism is the driver of our nationalism.

The rocks will melt with the sun before tuition fees are introduced in Scotland.

We intend to lead a government of purpose and direction so that we can offer the people of this nation the opportunity to move forward to independence, democracy and equality.

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

Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

It was an underwhelming performance from a man with an eye on his own exit strategy, even if he stubbornly refuses to find one for our soldiers in Iraq.

It is true that Sean had a successful procedure carried out some weeks ago but he's now fighting fit and raring to go.

It is true that Sean had a successful procedure carried out some weeks ago. But he's now fighting fit and raring to go.

Their whole by-election plan is in tatters, which is no surprise because everything Mr McConnell puts his fingers on usually collapses or turns to dust.

The current debates demand a re-examination of Scotland's political position,