Government
- James Ryan (Canadian politician) (1821–1892), politician in New Brunswick, Canada
- James Ryan (Irish politician) (1891–1970), Irish politician
- James Wilfrid Ryan (1858–1907), US Representative from Pennsylvania
- James L. Ryan (born 1932), American judge on the Michigan Supreme Court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals
- Jim Ryan (politician) (born 1946), Attorney General of Illinois; is named James E. Ryan
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“A woman does not have to make decisions based on the need to survive. She can cut through issues, call shots as she sees them.... Many bad decisions are made by men in government because it is good for them personally to make bad public decisions.”
—Dianne Feinstein (b. 1933)
“But, to speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“How does it become a man to behave toward this American government to-day? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is the slave’s government also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)