Politics
- Nelson W. Aldrich (1841-1915), American politician
- Nelson Chamisa (born 1978), Zimbabwean politician
- Nelson Dewey (1813-1889), American politician
- Nelson Harris, American politician (mayor of Roanoke, Virginia)
- Nelson Mandela (born 1918), South African politician and activist
- Nelson B. McCormick (1847-1914), American politician
- Nelson Oduber (born 1947), prime minister of Aruba
- Nelson Riis (born 1942), Canadian politician and businessman
- Nelson Rockefeller (1908–1979), forty-first Vice President of the United States
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous.... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.”
—Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)