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:
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)
“One might imagine that a movement which is so preoccupied with the fulfillment of human potential would have a measure of respect for those who nourish its source. But politics make strange bedfellows, and liberated women have elected to become part of a long tradition of hostility to mothers.”
—Elaine Heffner (20th century)
“His talk was like a spring, which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses:
It slipped from politics to puns,
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)