Politics
- C. A. Smith (born 1895), British socialist and anti-communist activist
- Charles Abercrombie Smith, scientist, politician and civil servant of the Cape Colony
- Charles Aurelius Smith (1861–1916), former Governor of South Carolina
- Charles A. Smith (Canadian politician) (1845–?), merchant and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada
- Charles Bennett Smith (1870–1939), U.S. Representative from New York
- Charles Brooks Smith (1844–1899), U.S. Representative from West Virginia
- Charles C. Smith (Virginia politician), mayor of Newport News, Virginia, 1924–1926
- Charles C. Smith (Pennsylvania politician) (1908–1970), Pennsylvania state representative
- Charles Emory Smith (1842–1908), American journalist and politician
- Charles Henry Smith (1826–1903), Georgia politician and writer under the nom de plume Bill Arp
- Charles K. Smith (1799–1866), American politician, lawyer, and first secretary of Minnesota Territory
- Charles L. Smith (1853–?), Canadian politician in New Brunswick
- Charles Lynwood Smith, Jr. (born 1943), U.S. federal judge
- Charles Manley Smith (1868–1937), governor of Vermont, 1935–37
- Charles P. Smith (born 1926), Wisconsin State Treasurer
- Charles Plympton Smith (born 1954), banker and former member of the Vermont House of Representatives
- Charles Rhodes Smith (1896–1993), Manitoba politician
- Charles Robert Smith (1887–1959) British colonial administrator and Governor of North Borneo
- Charlie Smith (Colorado), Chair of the College Republican National Committee
- Charles Smith (MP) (1756–1814), Member of Parliament for Saltash, 1796–1802
- Charles Harding Smith (1931–1997), loyalist leader in Northern Ireland
- Charles Napier Smith, politician in the Canadian province of Ontario
- Charles Culling Smith (1775–1853), British politician and courtier
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)