Politics
- John Watson (16th century MP), Member of Parliament for Morpeth, Newcastle upon Tyne and Berwick-upon-Tweed
- Chris Watson (John Christian Watson, 1867–1941), Australia's third Prime Minister
- John Bertrand Watson (1878–1948), British Member of Parliament for Stockton-on-Tees, 1917–1923
- John S. Watson (US politician) (1924–1996), African-American Democratic Party politician in New Jersey
- John Watson (Australian politician) (born 1937), former Australian Senator
- John Watson (British politician) (born 1943), British Member of Parliament for Skipton, 1979–1989
- John William Clark Watson (1808–1890), Confederate politician and judge
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“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
—George Washington (1732–1799)
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