"An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics." ― Adlai E. Stevenson Topic(s): Politics Tags: independent, someone More From Adlai E. Stevenson "Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job." "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody." "Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set." More In Politics "I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn’t find my way into the fictional world… When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts."― David Guterson "If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me, 90 cents."― Edward Koch "My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics."― Jack Kemp