Caroline Lucas Quotes

My parents were really political. The news was very important in our home. We basically had dinner every night while watching the news, and then we'd discuss it with our parents.

Politics scared the crap out of me because I didn't grow up in a family where we talked about anything, really, except, 'Pass the peas, and do this.'... We didn't really have political discussions at the dinner table. I didn't learn how to watch or listen to politics.

I tried to explain in 'The Nine of Us' how we grew up with politics. At meals we talked about what was in the newspaper. We talked politics non-stop! Campaigning for our brothers was a part of our lives.

Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.

I remember fancying myself a junior 'McCainiac' in 2000, though politics were rarely discussed in our household.

I grew up in a family that was always talking about politics.

I don't think there was really a time when I have not been politically aware.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

I am such a political person.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I didn't grow up in politics.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

When I was very young and came into politics, I basically thought ideas would do the trick.

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

I wasn't from a political family. Nobody talked politics.

I decided that instead of making jokes about politics, I need to take part in it, and therefore, I can't make jokes and participate.

We have quite a few political songs: 'Channel Z,' let's 'Keep This Party Going' on. Our lyrics aren't too hit-you-over-the-head, but they have political undertones. We're active politically.

My kids have been around politics since they were little.

You don't enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.

I've always been political.