I joined the PQ in the 1970s because of the issue of sovereignty. And that's why I wake up in the morning. A woman who gives birth to a country, that would be interesting.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Of course I'd have loved to be Prime Minister. But I'm not nursing a grievance.
I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.
In 26 years of delivering babies, I've always been interested in government and the state of the union.
I was really quite geeky at school. At one point, I wanted to be prime minister or a mathematician.
People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
The acceptance of 'Quantico' so far has been really great. At the moment, I'm just straddling two continents far away from each other, with very active careers in both!
I joined the Communist Party because I felt I had to be in some organization.
I have joined the 'suffragettes' - the militant party on the woman suffrage question.
I was fascinated, long before I joined the SNP, in the world around me; current affairs really interested me.