Politics
- Thurman Adams, Jr. - Democratic member of the Delaware Senate
- L. Heisler Ball – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Jo Anne B. Barnhart – Commissioner of Social Security
- Jill Biden (B.A. 1976, D.Ed. 2007) - American educator and Second Lady of the United States as the wife of Vice President of the United States Joe Biden
- Joe Biden (B.A. 1965) – Vice President of the United States of America, former U.S. Senator, former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- J. Caleb Boggs – Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Congressman, Governor of Delaware
- John F. Brady – Delaware politician
- David P. Buckson – Delaware politician
- Eric Buckson - Commissioner, Kent County Levy Court
- Daniel E. Button - Former U.S. Congressman
- Theophilus C. Callicot – Politician
- Thomas R. Carper – Current U.S. Senator, former U.S. Congressman and Governor of Delaware
- Christopher Christie - Governor of New Jersey
- Thomas Clayton – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Carl Danberg – Delaware Attorney General and Commissioner of the Delaware Department of Correction
- Reha Denemeç – Co-founder and deputy chairman (research and development) of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) in Turkey
- Kendel Sibiski Ehrlich – Former First Lady of Maryland
- J. Allen Frear, Jr. – Former U.S. Senator
- Don B. Hughes – former Maryland State Delegate
- Horace G. Knowles - diplomat
- Thomas McKean – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Louis McLane – Former U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
- David Plouffe – Campaign Manager of the Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2008, Political Consultant
- George Read – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- George R. Riddle – Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressman
- Caesar Rodney - signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Steve Schmidt - Campaign Manager of the John McCain presidential campaign, 2008 (note: did not graduate)
- James Smith – signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Nick Smith - Former U.S. Congressman from Michigan
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops.”
—Maurice Johnstone (20th century)
“Of course, in the reality of history, the Machiavellian view which glorifies the principle of violence has been able to dominate. Not the compromising conciliatory politics of humaneness, not the Erasmian, but rather the politics of vested power which firmly exploits every opportunity, politics in the sense of the “Principe,” has determined the development of European history ever since.”
—Stefan Zweig (18811942)
“From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political end justifying almost any means. The full story of his confirmation raises questions not only about who lied and why, but, more important, about what happens when politics becomes total war and the truth—and those who tell it—are merely unfortunate sacrifices on the way to winning.”
—Jane Mayer, U.S. journalist, and Jill Abramson b. 1954, U.S. journalist. Strange Justice, p. 8, Houghton Mifflin (1994)