Politics
- William Benjamin Wells (1809–1881), Canadian lawyer, judge, journalist and politician
- William H. Wells (1769–1829), American lawyer and U.S. Senator from Delaware
- William Wells (British politician) (1908–1990), Barrister, MP for Walsall North from 1945-74
- William Wells (New Zealand politician) (1810–1893), member of New Zealand Parliament
- William Wells (1818–1889), British Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Beverley, 1852–1857, and Peterborough, 1874–1874
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”
—Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“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)