Politics
- John Collins (died 1597), MP for Hythe (UK Parliament constituency)
- John Collins (Continental Congress) (1717–1795), Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress
- John Collins (governor) (1776–1822), American manufacturer and Governor of Delaware
- John F. Collins (1919–1995), Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts, 1960–1968
- John Collins (Andover MP) (1624–1711), English academic and politician
- John F. Collins (1872–1962), Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, 1939–1941
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“In politics if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“While you’re playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely dense person. But just begin a conversation with him about something inedible, politics or science, for instance, and he ends up in a deadend or starts in on such an obtuse and base philosophy that you can only wave your hand and leave.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)