Politicians
- John Simpson (Parliamentarian), politician of the post-English Civil War period, see Thomas Kelsey
- John Simpson (Kentucky), American Congressman-elect from Kentucky, who died before the start of the 13th Congress in 1813, see Kentucky in the War of 1812
- John Simpson (Quebec politician) (1788–1873), government official and politician in Quebec
- John Simpson (Canada West politician) (1807–1878), Canadian businessman and politician
- John Simpson (Ontario politician) (1812–1885), Ontario banker and member of the Senate of Canada
- John A. Simpson (1854–1916), Canadian politician
- John Thomas Simpson (1870–1965), Conservative member of the Canadian House of Commons
- John Simpson (MP) (1763–1850), English politician, Member of Parliament for Wenlock
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“Everyone was tired with the old style politicians and their flowery rhetoric. I just told them there are tough times ahead, but that they would be less tough with me in charge.”
—Anibal Cavaco Silva (b. 1939)
“I spent my life mixin’ with your breed, and I don’t like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and politicians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don’t remember overnight, but we’ll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)