Caroline Lucas Quotes

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

I would say that every political party must remain in some form in a state or the Centre for the sake of democracy.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

If you give up on politics, you give up on democracy … and then we are absolute plutocracy.

We mean by "politics" the people's business -- the most important business there is.

I'm one of those old cynics that thinks, whoever you vote for, the government always gets in.

I think that's what we don't understand as human beings is this is America. It's a democracy. Once we get whoever we want into the White House, even the person we want to get in the White House doesn't get in the White House. We have every right to not only criticize that person but demand that person does what it is we need to get done. That just happens with us mobilizing and us using our voices to talk to the mayors, the governors and the presidents.

The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.

I kinda halfway paid attention to politics during my early years, but the older you get, the more you realize it's very important to pay attention to who gets elected. They can ruin the country.

That is why I came to conclusion that the election must take place, so that the republic can have a government. If I were to say that everything will change for the better immediately, that would not be true. The struggle will continue for a long time.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

This country has always been run by elite, and it's an elitist democracy. And that's not a radical concept. It's elitist democracy. When people talk about democracy, they don't talk - really talk about participatory democracy, until the point that we get us at Election Day.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

I still have a great deal of faith in our political system and a great deal of faith in the American people and voter.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Look, just go sit at the card table with the rest of the kids and let the adults run the country.

Although elections are not perfect tools for democracy, they reinforce the relationship between the people and their leaders, empowering citizens to remove and replace their governments in a peaceful and orderly manner. The only basis for a peaceful society is providing people with the opportunity to express their opinions and their will, and elections are instrumental in doing so.

In a democracy, people usually get the kind of government they deserve, and they deserve what they get.

I cannot run the political machine. I have enough on my hands without that. It is the people's business.

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It