Independence Quotes

You want to have a highly competent control team, not just operationally but technologically, that can set up the exercise and devise the scenarios while keeping the normal group completely in the dark about what's going on. That independence ensures that the emergency team is not over-prepared and ready with all the right answers. You want them to be surprised because that's how it could be during the real event. - Bob Cass

You want results, not rhetoric. You want action, not promises. You want independence, not machine politics. - Michael Bloomberg

You only maintain true independence when you have YOUR OWN tests to pass, not someone else's. - Aubrey ODay

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence. - Charles Austin Beard

You have to love a nation that celebrates its Independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism. - Erma Bombeck

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation. - Charles E Popplestone

You can't mess up your financial independence to put your kids through college... If you hit a snag, you don't have as many years to recover. - Patricia Jennerjohn

You can't criticize Independence Air's management for trying something, but it was apparent it wasn't working after a month. They should have changed it then, but they were all too busy drinking the Kool-Aid. - Tim Sieber

You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. - William Boetcker

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives. - William Hague