Government
- John MacDonald II or John of Islay, Earl of Ross (1434–1503), last Lord of the Isles, Scotland
- John Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh (1836–1919), Scottish politician and later a judge
- John Kinneir Macdonald (1782-1830), British traveller and diplomat, envoy to Persia
- John A. Macdonald (1815–1891), first Canadian prime minister
- John Alexander MacDonald (Prince Edward Island politician) (born 1838), former speaker of the Prince Edward Island assembly
- John Alexander Macdonald (Prince Edward Island politician) (1874–1948), Canadian member of parliament for King's, Prince Edward Island
- John Alexander Macdonald (Nova Scotia politician) (born 1883), first elected in 1925 as Conservative member for Richmond—West Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, later appointed to the Senate
- John Alexander Macdonald Armstrong (1877–1926), Canadian politician, conveyancer and real estate agent
- John Macdonald (British politician) (1854–1939), British Liberal politician
- John Augustine Macdonald, Canadian Member of Parliament, King's, Prince Edward Island
- John Joseph MacDonald (1891-1986) Canadian Senator for Prince Edward Island
- John L. MacDonald (1838–1903), American representative from Minnesota
- John Macdonald (Canadian politician) (1824–1890), Canadian member of parliament and later a Canadian Senator
- John Michael Macdonald (1906–1997), Canadian Senator for Nova Scotia
- John Sandfield Macdonald (1812–1872), first Premier of Ontario
- John Small MacDonald (ca. 1791–1849), Prince Edward Island merchant and politician
- John MacDonald (Australian politician), Senator for Queensland
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”
—Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
“The powers of the federal government ... result from the compact to which the states are parties, [and are] limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)
“It has been the struggle between privileged men who have managed to get hold of the levers of power and the people in general with their vague and changing aspirations for equality, for justice, for some kind of gentler brotherhood and peace, which has kept that balance of forces we call our system of government in equilibrium.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)