Politics
- Sir John Anderson, 1st Baronet, of Mill Hill (c. 1736–1813), British politician, MP for City of London, 1793–1806
- John Anderson (Maine) (1792–1853), United States Representative from Maine
- John Hawkins Anderson (1805–1870), member of the Canadian Senate
- John Anderson (mayor) (1820–1897), mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand
- John Crawford Anderson, 19th-century New Zealand politician, MP for Bruce electorate
- John Alexander Anderson (1834–1892), United States Representative from Kansas
- John Gerard Anderson (1836–1911), Scottish-born educationalist and public servant in colonial Queensland
- John Anderson (Newfoundland politician) (1855–1930), Newfoundland businessman and politician
- John Anderson (colonial administrator) (1858–1918), British governor of Straits Settlements and later of Ceylon
- John Anderson, 1st Viscount Waverley (1882–1958), British civil servant and politician
- Jack Z. Anderson (1904–1981), United States Representative from California
- John Hope Anderson (1912–2005), Pennsylvania politician
- John Anderson, Jr. (born 1917), Governor of Kansas, 1961–1965
- John Victor Anderson (1918-1982), former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Lethbridge-East, 1971–1975
- John B. Anderson (born 1922), United States Representative from Illinois and 1980 presidential candidate
- John Anderson, 3rd Viscount Waverley (born 1949), British peer
- John Anderson (Australian politician) (born 1956), Deputy Prime Minister of Australia and Leader of the National Party of Australia, 1999–2005
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“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who’s out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“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)