Quotes from Caroline Lucas

Britain is a parliamentary democracy. Power rests in Parliament, in the House of Commons, and the government - the executive - has to seek the consent of MPs for its legislation.

Our railways maintain a healthy economy and society. They keep businesses running and families close. They're a vital public service and must be treated as such.

I don't think anybody voted for the Green Party without knowing what our position was on Brexit.

I stand alongside everyone campaigning for better pay and conditions - they are paving the way for a fairer society.

In a fair society, the solution to unemployment is not to force people into workfare programmes which do little more than supply big companies with free labour. It's to create jobs that pay a living wage, for example, by investing in new sustainable infrastructure projects and boosting the jobs-rich low carbon economy.

Clear skies and clean air must become the new normal. We must re-design our cities, reclaiming the streets for cycling and walking, allowing people to walk along streets unpolluted by traffic.

My parents are not people who would want to rock the boat. They wouldn't break the law.

Sometimes it takes a sudden change to make you realise just how bad things were.

I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.

We cannot afford to burn the vast majority of known fossil fuel reserves.

If a prime minister can suspend parliament to deliver a 'no deal' Brexit, what will the government try to do next with no democratic scrutiny or oversight?

It's going to take everyone to rebuild a fairer, more sustainable, more beautiful Britain.

Nuclear weapons remain a costly distraction from the real security threats we face, like climate change.

Advanced industrialised economies like ourselves cannot afford to go on growing, particularly if we want to give people in poorer countries a chance of being able to at least meet their basic needs.

I think the Greens are posing some of the most important questions of our time, for example how we live sustainably on a planet of finite resources and a rising population, and how do we do that in a way that doesn't exceed environmental limits and which is fair.

We can no longer allow special corporate interests to shape our political and financial decisions, while our citizens and communities cry for real climate action.

There is an important message that all political leaders should be taking from the response to coronavirus, and that is that people are prepared to make hard choices for the common good.

I do think that if people are taking the time to think about their environmental footprint when it comes to how many flights they take, whether or not they have a 4X4, whether or not they are going to have a patio heater, then putting the question to themselves about how many kids they are going to have is a reasonable thing to do.

Other countries are developing well-being economies - we should do the same. That is the way to create a society which would stand the test of time - for everyone.

Addressing the climate and biodiversity crises requires us to radically change our economic models, moving away from economic growth as the over-riding measure of progress and moving instead towards improving health and wellbeing for people and nature. That means a different economic model taking us towards a sustainable economy.

Huge public spending and borrowing in the face of an existential crisis is clearly the right thing to do, as is putting people's health and wellbeing above the pursuit of economic growth.

We know that Brexit would make our poorest communities poorer still. That it would make the powerless even less able to effect change.

In the public mind, when they think of politicians, sadly they probably tend to think of men in grey suits doing work behind closed doors at Westminster. I want to get away from the idea.

The creation of regional mayors has done little to reduce the sense that all power is concentrated in Westminster, and all investment in London.