Quotes About Independence

Anyone who wants to see a very free world does not want government. I also don't like being extorted or being aggressed against by others.

We have to allow people in the states to make their own decisions, to get government agencies out of the way and let local people make decisions about what's best for them.

I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

Sports can't be run by governments.

Parents, not governments, should decide what is best for their family.

I believe in small governments or no governments. I think the majority of people want to have big government, a big brother taking care of them.

In my eight years as governor, I did everything I could to resist federal control of issues that belong to the states.

I was a go-go dancer, too. I called myself 'Grace Mendoza' to fool my parents.

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

I was home schooled starting in seventh grade.

My mom and I would make bracelets and necklaces, and I would sell it in the first, second, and third grades because that was my lunch money.

I moved to New York when I was 21 or 22 as a graduate fellow.

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.

I went through college in the 1960s without having any idea that I was going to have to make a living. When I graduated in 1968 it was quite a shock to find out that there was a world out there and that it wasn't going to support me.

When I graduated I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I didn't want a conventional career.

As I graduated high school, it didn't faze me anymore. Right now, I don't even care what people think of me. I'm happy with myself.

I've finally graduated from 'I don't give a hoot.'

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

I broke out of my shell once I graduated from high school and got into college in my first year.

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

It's always great to play a character that goes against the grain. Finn defies what people think when they think of stormtroopers.

I did what I did. I went against the grain. And I understand that I would be criticized. Those were all choices.

I always went left to what everybody else was doing. I'm used to going against the grain.