Politicians
- John Long (politician) (c. 1419–1478), English Member of Parliament for Cricklade
- John Long (c.1517-c.1600/2), MP for Knaresborough, Hedon, Shaftesbury and Newcastle-under-Lyme
- John Long (Irish politician), member of the Parliament of Ireland in 1689 for Midleton, County Cork
- John Long (North Carolina politician) (1785–1857), U.S. Representative from North Carolina
- John Davis Long (1838–1915), Governor of Massachusetts, later the U.S. Secretary of the Navy
- John Andrew Long (1869–1941), Senator in Northern Ireland
- John B. Long (1843–1924), U.S. Representative from Texas
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Famous quotes containing the word politicians:
“I spent my life mixin’ with your breed, and I don’t like it. Get me. You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers and politicians with the gimmes, writs of habeas corpus, witnesses that don’t remember overnight, but we’ll get through to you, just like we got all the rest.”
—Ben Hecht (1893–1964)
“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“Wit puts politicians at risk.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)