Caroline Lucas Quotes

Permanent political parties have been born in this country after, and not before, national campaigns, and they have come from the people, not from the proclamations of individual leaders.

The Republican Party is a composition of the members of the party and not just the leadership.

If the leadership can't win a debate, then we should show true leadership and implement the democratic will of our party.

People don't like to vote against something that's so incredibly popular.

Politicians do what they hear from the American people.

Congress and elected bodies always tend to react. As public bodies we are behind the people.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great care that they do not receive that inclination from the few persons who may happen to approach them.

The influence of every mode of thinking which is shared by numbers ought to be felt in the legislature.

Reposing complete confidence in the soundness of the deliberate judgement of the American people, I have no apprehension that the Communist Party can ever command any considerable support in this country. I do not question their right, under the Constitution, to submit their issues to the people, but I must emphatically protest against their being admitted into the councils of any body of progressive voters.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties. We maintain party government not to promote intolerant partisanship but because opportunity must be given for expression of the popular will

In matters which concern the common good, a general council chosen by all, to transact business which concern all, I conceive most suitable to rule and most safe for relief of the whole

Democracy is not a spectator sport. It is a difficult, hard, full-contact, participatory endeavor.

I don't want to be a dictator, because it is contrary to my own conscience. I am a democrat, but I don't desire democratic liberalism. On the contrary, I want a guided democracy... I have a conception of my own, which I will put at the disposal of the party leaders if required.

It is my hope that the establishment part of the Democratic Party will heed what the grass roots is saying.

Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.

I'm a firm believer that if we could restore real parliamentary democracy, the best way to do that would be to get rid of political parties.

There is a severe shortage in our country of political parties where internal democracy is alive and kicking.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

You need a Democratic Party which is a grassroots party, which makes decisions from the bottom on up, not just from the top on down.

The membership survey was a great moment for inner-party democracy. We can't go back, nor do we want to. Our members are pouring their hearts into this campaign. But people don't join the Social Democrats party just to put up posters. They join because they want to help steer the party.

It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.

The political system of the People's Republic of China can make things easy. Decisions are made quickly and results come quickly, too. In our democracy [in India], on the other hand, such things are extremely difficult.

There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.

I support our democracy. And sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.