Politicians
- James Wright (governor) (1716–1785), British colonial governor of the U.S. state of Georgia
- J. Skelly Wright (James Skelly Wright, 1911–1988), American judge
- James A. Wright (1902–1963), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- James L. Wright Pennsylvania politician
- James R. Wright, Canadian diplomat
- Jim Wright (born 1922), U.S. Congressman from Texas, Speaker of the House
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“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)
“In the past, it seemed to make sense for a sportswriter on sabbatical from the playpen to attend the quadrennial hawgkilling when Presidential candidates are chosen, to observe and report upon politicians at play. After all, national conventions are games of a sort, and sports offers few spectacles richer in low comedy.”
—Walter Wellesley (Red)
“The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie “answers” questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)