“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”– Adlai E. Stevenson Related Quotes “I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.”– Simon Cowell “Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.”– Richard Armour “Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.”– Tony Kushner