Politicians
- Richard Harrison (British Army officer) (1837–1931), British Quartermaster-General to the Forces and Inspector-General of Fortifications
- Richard Harrison (New Zealand politician) (1921–2003), former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives
- Richard Harrison (Royalist) (1583–1655), English MP and cavalier
- Richard Harrison (died 1726) English MP for Lancaster
- Richard A. Harrison (1824–1904), U.S. Representative from Ohio
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Famous quotes containing the word politicians:
“I spent my life mixin’ with your breed, and I don’t like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and politicians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don’t remember overnight, but we’ll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society—but now apparently a diminishing one.”
—Richard B. Stolley (20th century)
“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.... Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians ... have attempted to exploit it.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)