Politicians
- William Spencer (MP for Bristol), MP of Bristol 1467
- William Spencer (MP for Ipswich) (by 1473-1529 or later), MP for [[Ipswich (UK Parliament constituency)|Ipswich) 1510
- William Spencer (Sheriff) (c.1496–1532), High Sheriff of Northamptonshire 1531
- William Spencer (MP for Ripon), MP for Ripon 1584–1586
- William Spencer, 2nd Baron Spencer (1591–1636), British peer and MP for Brackley (UK Parliament constituency) 1614 and Northamptonshire 1620–22 & 1624–27
- William B. Spencer (1835–1882), U.S. Representative from Louisiana
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“Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.”
—Anibal Cavaco Silva (b. 1939)
“The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie “answers” questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)