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:
“Of course politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)