Independent Candidates Quotes & Sayings

My musical tastes change every week. — Kirk Hammett

I just think that the independent voters are going to take their time and look at both candidates. — Jim Talent

I hear of a convention to be held at Baltimore, or elsewhere, for the selection of a candidate for the Presidency, made up chiefly of editors, and men who are politicians by profession; but I think, what is it to any independent, intellegent, and respectable man what decision they may come to? Shall we not have the advantage of his wisdom and honesty, nevertheless? Can we not count upon some independent votes? Are there not many individuals in the country who do not attend conventions? But no: I find that the respectable man, so called, has immediately drifted from his position, and despairs of his country, when his country has more reason to despair of him. He forthwith adopts one of the candidates thus selected as his only AVAILABLE one, thus proving that he is himself AVAILABLE for any purposes of the demagogue. His vote is of no more worth than that of any unprincipled foreigner or hireling native, who may have been bought. — Henry David Thoreau

I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring. — Chris Hemsworth

I could have put that bitch in prison and stolen her husband. — Tarryn Fisher

When you buy toothpaste or detergent or gas, that is now used for the first time in your lifetime or my lifetime to support candidates in so-called 'independent ads.' Same thing for unions. — Russ Feingold

Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to their wishes. — Honore De Balzac

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma'am. I'm not worth more than fifteen. — Margaret Brownley

Being able to do exactly as one pleases is the surest way to remain perpetually unpleased. — Sydney J. Harris

I enjoyed the opportunities, but there was no time to think. — Namie Amuro

I am neither Republican nor Democrat. I am a registered independent because I find that I cast my votes not on the basis of party loyalty but on the issues of the moment and my assessment of the candidates. — Walter Cronkite

In football, you're hitting, so you might as well hit in practice. — Logan Mankins

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence. — Samuel Johnson

I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike. — John Paul DeJoria

When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do. — Mahatma Gandhi

All beliefs are equally valid. — Alaric Hutchinson

It's nice to have a lot of people in the field. Independent, third party, Libertarian, Reform and other party candidates can do what they want to do. I welcome them to the race. — John Murray

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. — Jackie Robinson

After all, what good is a life saved if you fail to live it? — Lisa Wingate