Independent Politics Quotes

We are against political parties and we have none.

We will accept no corporate PAC money, and we're not going to be driven by the polls.

A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party.

As the longest serving Independent in the history of the United States Congress, as somebody who came into office by defeating an incumbent Democratic mayor in Burlington, Vermont, I know something about third party politics. And I respect Jill [Stein].

Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest bidder as opposed to the people they claim to represent. I cannot be bought.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics

The fastest growing political party is no party.

I was not a Democrat; I was an independent. Here's the thing: You can't win that way. But I didn't know that.

The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country.

Forming an alliance is not the tradition of the AAP and we will not fight elections in collaboration with any political party or front.

She had heard someone say something about an Independent Labour Party, and was furious that she had not been asked.

You know, Bernie [Sanders] is - he is a team player. I think he's on the wrong team, perhaps because he's been in Washington, D.C., too long, because he used to really understand independent politics and why we cannot have a viable political system unless we have independent political parties. Otherwise we just keep marching to the right.

God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.

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.

As I am a film personality, I feel it would be best to be an independent candidate. Thus if I decide to contest it won't be under the symbol of any political party.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.