Quotes from Caroline Lucas

We promote new fossil fuel infrastructure, from airport expansion and coal mines in the U.K. to oil pipelines in the U.S. Investments are meant to build and secure our shared future - but all these fossil fuel investments are directly fuelling the climate crisis that threatens to undermine that future.

Labour needs to end its support for expensive nuclear power and vanity projects like HS2, and take a firm stance against the ecologically impossible expansion of airports.

I'm a great believer in needing things that give us some hope.

A public, unified and integrated railway - hardly controversial.

It used to be said that war was the locomotive of history, with its power to accelerate change. The coronavirus crisis has that same power. It has already shown us who we really are, and how there is much more than unites than divides us. It has shown how governments need to work with their citizens to overcome threats or challenges.

Fading are the days in which a cohort of towering power stations ran the game (and captured all the profits).

I come from a very conventional and non-political background.

As more and more people demand fair pay, the Government and big corporations are going to have to take notice.

When threats become unspeakable, unshareable and even unreadable, their power over us only grows.

Continuing down a path where profit is king is unsustainable for our society, our health and our planet.

Humanity's inclination to be kind during the coronavirus crisis is an unprecedented, uplifting demonstration of solidarity.

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

The people who serve your fast food lunch or your after-work drinks deserve dignity - and if big companies don't start paying them enough for a decent standard of living, they have the power to close these businesses. But no one goes on strike lightly.

Climate change demands a collective response. We can't expect other countries to act if we don't.

GDP simply measures the circulation of money in the economy, not whether or not the outcome of using that money is positive or negative.

Many are outspoken about the climate crisis, but conveniently ignore the fact that support for fossil fuels is not just incompatible with curbing emissions but dangerously counterproductive.

I did try being a vegan.

We always knew that whatever party Nigel Farage led - first UKIP and then the Brexit party - was basically a vehicle for his own political self-glorification and now he's proved it.

I've been in the Green party for a very long time - when was it, 1986 - and I joined the party because I seriously wanted the party to have influence.

What does the public want? It wants a vested interest in its own energy provision - driving more efficient behaviour. It wants greater choice and responsibility at a local level. And it wants increased use of renewables to protect the environment.

My constituents are my employers - if I let them down I should be accountable to them.

We should entrust our young people with a voice to express their views on what their futures should look like.

Once upon a time the Conservative party was a broad church which embraced a range of views.

The point about Roosevelt's New Deal was that it was visionary - for the 1930s.