Politics
- Paul Johnson (Canadian politician) (born 1952), former MPP
- Paul Johnson (politician) (born 1959), American politician, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona
- Paul B. Johnson, Sr. (1880–1943), American politician, governor of Mississippi 1940–1943
- Paul B. Johnson, Jr. (1916–1985), American politician, governor of Mississippi 1964–1968
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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)
“The word “revolution” itself has become not only a dead relic of Leftism, but a key to the deadendedness of male politics: the “revolution” of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the “revolving door” of a politics which has “liberated” women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The rage for road building is beneficent for America, where vast distance is so main a consideration in our domestic politics and trade, inasmuch as the great political promise of the invention is to hold the Union staunch, whose days already seem numbered by the mere inconvenience of transporting representatives, judges and officers across such tedious distances of land and water.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)