Patty Judge Quotes

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things.

I don't toe the party line all the time.

Whenever possible, I operate outside the system.

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

It is refreshing to be able to express my views without having to toe a party line. It has got me into trouble on the odd occasion, but I am not going to stop saying what I think.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

If I were a black liberal, I would be hailed, I guess. But I'm not. I mean, I think for myself. I want to make my own decisions.

I would have been a disaster as a career politician. I would never have toed a party line.

I like being unconventional.

I am not a man of my party. I do not talk only to socialists and union leaders.

If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.

A thinking man can never be a party man.

I'm not 100 percent anybody's ideological prism.

I am not a Federalist because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatsoever

What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance

I don't fit neatly into anybody's political boxes, and I think that sometimes disturbs people. But I don't think most Alaskans fit neatly into the Republican box or the Democratic box. They don't think of themselves that way.

I want to change the game and break through the nonsense without any Establishment help.

I followed my own self and individuality so much that it automatically made me a game changer or set me apart from others. I did not think it was necessary to do things the way others are doing it.

I've never followed my party... I'm no yes-man, I've never been a yes-man.

I always spoke my mind. I didn't go with the flow.

I always wanted to be different and do things differently. I was a pain in the neck. I was challenging everything you wanted me to do and challenging people in school.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Don't follow leaders.

If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.