An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.