Government
- James Ryan (Canadian politician) (1821–1892), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
- James Ryan (Irish politician) (1891–1970), Irish politician
- James Wilfrid Ryan (1858–1907), US Representative from Pennsylvania
- James L. Ryan (born 1932), American judge on the Michigan Supreme Court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Jim Ryan (politician) (born 1946), Attorney General of Illinois; is named James E. Ryan
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“We talk about a representative government; but what a monster of a government is that where the noblest faculties of the mind, and the whole heart, are not represented! A semihuman tiger or ox, stalking over the earth, with its heart taken out and the top of its brain shot away. Heroes have fought well on their stumps when their legs were shot off, but I never heard of any good done by such a government as that.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“You are, I am sure, aware that genuine popular support in the United States is required to carry out any Government policy, foreign or domestic. The American people make up their own minds and no governmental action can change it.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms.... Only in superstition is there hope. If you want to become a friend of civilization, then become an enemy of the truth and a fanatic for harmless balderdash.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)