In Politics
- John Murphy (Alabama) (1786–1841), American Democratic Governor and Congressman from Alabama
- John Murphy (Irish Parliamentary Party) (1870–1930), Member of the UK Parliament for East Kerry, 1900–1910
- John W. Murphy (1902–1962), American Democratic Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Jack Murphy (Irish politician) (1920–1984), Irish independent politician, TD Dublin South Central, 1957–1958
- John Joseph Murphy (born 1922), Canadian politician
- John A. Murphy (born 1927), Irish historian and former independent Senator from Cork
- John Murphy (Canadian politician) (born 1937), member of the Canadian House of Commons, 1993–1997
- John Murphy (Texas) (born 1945), Councilmember and former Mayor Pro Tem of Richardson, Texas
- John Murphy (Australian politician) (born 1950), member of the House of Representatives
- John J. Murphy (born 1959), American Republican politician
- John M. Murphy (born 1926), US Congressman from New York, implicated in Abscam
- John R. Murphy (1856–1932), Massachusetts politician and attorney
- John W. Murphy (Connecticut) (1878–1963), former mayor of New Haven, Connecticut
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“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices.... Politics has once again become religious.”
—Michel de Certeau (1925–1986)