Politics
- King Sven (King Sweyn), name of different kings
- Sven Alkalaj, Bosnian politician
- Sven Arrestad, Norwegian temperance campaigner
- Sven Lindgren, Swedish politician
- Sven Otto Littorin, Swedish Moderate Party politician and government minister
- Sven Mikser, Estonian politician
- Sven Ranck, Swedish statesman
- Sven Rydenfelt, Swedish economist and political writer
- Sveinn Björnsson, Iceland's first president
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.”
—Letty Cottin Pogrebin (20th century)
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
“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)