Politics
- Moe Fishman (1933) co-founder and Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.
- Sy Schulman (ca. 1944) civil engineer and urban planner, Mayor of White Plains, New York
- Howard Golden (1945) served as Brooklyn Borough President
- Serphin Maltese (c. 1950) is a longstanding New York State Senator
- Roy Innis (1952) served as national chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality
- Robert Parris Moses (1952) organizer of 1964 Freedom Summer, MacArthur Fellow
- Bernard W. Nussbaum (1954) law; served on the United States House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate impeachment inquiry, served as counsel to President Bill Clinton
- Richard Ben-Veniste (1960) law; assistant prosecutor on the Watergate Task Force, served on the 9/11 Commission
- Harvey Pitt (1961) Chairman, Securities and Exchange Commission
- Ted Gold (1964) political activist and Weathermen member
- Dick Morris (1964) political consultant
- Jerrold Nadler (1965) U.S. Congressman
- Eric Holder (1969) law; United States Attorney General in President Barack Obama's administration
- John Tsang Chun-wah (1969) Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
- David Axelrod (c. 1972) senior advisor to Barack Obama's campaign
- Alan Jay Gerson (1975) current member of New York City Council
- Eva Moskowitz (1982) served on New York City Council
- Jessica Lappin (1993) current member of New York City Council
- Grace Meng (1993) current member of New York State Assembly
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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)
“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who’s out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”
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“The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.”
—Ben C. Bradlee (b. 1921)