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Quotes About Independence

If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain's seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.
~ Boris Johnson
I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.
~ Gertrude Stein
People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.
~ Robert Mugabe
Corporations serve an important purpose, but telling people how to vote isn't one of them.
~ Chellie Pingree
When push comes to shove, people vote alone.
~ Meles Zenawi
As a political independent, I would gladly vote for any political party dedicated to limited government and entrepreneurship.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I've come to realize that an unencumbered U.S. senator is a profound threat to the whole system. It's somebody that they can't put in a box and say, 'Oh, well, we know how this guy is going to vote.'
~ Angus King
But just because I hate the Conservatives doesn't mean I'm gonna tell people to vote for the party I want. Inform yourself on what the parties stand for and make your own decision.
~ AJ Tracey
What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
~ Carles Puigdemont
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination.
~ Carles Puigdemont
I should see a board of directors who should vote on who I should date.
~ Debbie Reynolds
I have never voted a party line. I vote on the individual and the issues.
~ Walter Cronkite
I've voted in every election - not always for the same political party and never with any degree of enthusiasm.
~ Tom Stoppard
I believe I have voted for both Democrats and Republicans. Am I either one? Absolutely not. Ladies and gentlemen, I am an American.
~ David Letterman
Would I have voted to leave the European Union? Yes, I would. My theory there is that Britain was fed up having won two World Wars against the Germans and had reached the boiling and breaking point of being told where to live and what to do by a bunch of bureaucrats in Belgium. It was out of that frustration that the vote to leave was made.
~ Robin Leach
It would be a very serious mistake for the U.K. to vote to leave the European Union, and I think it would be democratically indefensible for Scotland, if we had voted to stay in, to face the prospect of being taken out.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
I left home at 18, but I still voted in Kentucky. Every holiday, I came home to Kentucky.
~ Amy McGrath
I like being in control of making all the major decisions pertaining to my projects. That's something that you don't get to do in a group. Everything has to be voted on - every minor decision.
~ Bobby Brown
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.
~ Claire McCaskill
I always vote for the guy I think can get it done. And it ain't nobody's business who I vote for, but I voted for Clinton twice. And that just blows people's minds when they hear that.
~ Toby Keith
To be honest, in 2012, I was against both candidates, and so I just picked any third party because I thought if more people voted for third parties then they'd have to take third parties seriously.
~ Ronda Rousey
The British people voted to leave the European Union - let's just leave.
~ Mark Francois
The British people voted to take back control of our borders, trade, money and laws. They chose a bright future as a free, independent and sovereign country.
~ Priti Patel
There were many reasons why people voted to leave the European Union in 2016. But my impression, having campaigned to remain in the E.U., is that above all else, people throughout this country sought to regain a feeling of control - not just of our laws, but over our lives too, and the people we elect into office.
~ David Lidington