Politics
- Jack Reed (politician) (born 1949), American politician from Rhode Island
- John H. Reed (born 1921), American politician, 66th governor of Maine
- John Reed, Jr. (1781–1860), American politician from Massachusetts, son of John Reed, Sr. (below), entered Congress in 1813
- John Reed, Sr. (1751–1831), American politician from Massachusetts, left Congress in 1801
- John A. Reed, Jr. (born 1931), American lawyer, judge
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“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)
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“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)