United States
- Bob Avakian (b. 1943), chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, and author of Away With All Gods!.
- Charles T. Beaird (1922–2006), Republican Party member and newspaper publisher.
- Lori Lipman Brown (b. 1958), American politician, lobbyist, lawyer, educator, and social worker supporter, Nevada state senator from 1992 to 1994.
- Douglas Campbell (b. 1959), atheist advocate and member of the Green Party of Michigan and of the Godless Americans Political Action Committee. Co-founder, Michigan Godless Americans Political Action Committee. Green Party candidate for governor of Michigan in both 2002 and 2006.
- Clarence Darrow (1857–1938), American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending John T. Scopes in the so-called Monkey Trial.
- Sean Faircloth, an attorney, served five terms in the Maine Legislature including appointments on the Judiciary and Appropriations Committees.
- Vincent Hallinan (1896–1992), American lawyer who ran for president of the United States in 1952, the third highest polling candidate in the election.
- James Kennedy, the former mayor of Rahway, New Jersey. An American politician and member of the Democratic Party.
- Heather Mac Donald (b. 1956), American writer and lawyer, member of the Manhattan Institute and author of The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society.
- Culbert Olson (1876–1962), American politician and Governor of California from 1939 to 1943.
- Kyrsten Sinema (b. 1976), U.S. Representative (D-AZ), Member of the Arizona Senate (2011-2012), Member of the Arizona House of Representatives (2005-2011).
- Pete Stark (b. 1931), U.S. Representative (1973-2013) (D-CA), the first openly atheist member of Congress.
- Eddie Tabash, an American lawyer and atheist activist and debater.
- Jesse Ventura (b. 1951), former Governor of Minnesota, veteran, wrestler, actor, and talk show host.
- Alan Wolfe, an American political scientist and sociologist, director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life.
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“An alliance is like a chain. It is not made stronger by adding weak links to it. A great power like the United States gains no advantage and it loses prestige by offering, indeed peddling, its alliances to all and sundry. An alliance should be hard diplomatic currency, valuable and hard to get, and not inflationary paper from the mimeograph machine in the State Department.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“In the United States, though power corrupts, the expectation of power paralyzes.”
—John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)
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—Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)
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“Places where he might live and die and never hear of the United States, which make such a noise in the world,—never hear of America, so called from the name of a European gentleman.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)