Politics
- James Thompson (Australian politician), member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1856–1857
- James Thompson (civil servant) (1848–1929), Acting Governor of Madras
- James Thompson (jurist) (1806–1874), congressman and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- James A. Thompson, mayor of Sugar Land, Texas
- James F. Thompson, United States government official
- James Frederick Thompson (1884–1966), member of the New Zealand Legislative Council
- James G. Thompson (New York) (born 1829), New York politician
- James R. Thompson (born 1936), governor of Illinois and member of the 9/11 Commission
- James T. Thompson, Mayor of Birkenhead, England, circa 1899
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)