Politics
- John Wright (MP for Bedford), MP in 1391 for Bedford
- John and Christopher Wright (1568–1605), (1570–1605), members of the 1605 Gunpowder Plot
- John Wright (Ipswich MP) (1615–1683)
- John Wright (politician), New Zealand MP, 1996–2002
- John C. Wright (comptroller) (1801–1862), NY State Comptroller, 1852–1853
- John C. Wright (politician) (1783–1861), U.S. Representative from Ohio
- John F. Wright (born 1945), Nebraska Supreme Court justice
- John Vines Wright (1828–1908), member of the U.S. Congress, the Confederate Congress, and a state supreme court justice
- John Allan Cecil Cecil-Wright (1886–1982), Member of Parliament for Birmingham Erdington, 1936–1945
- John A. Wright (born 1954), Oklahoma State Representative and Lieutenant Governor Candidate
- John Wright (New South Wales politician), New South Wales colonial MP
- John Wright (Tasmanian politician) (1892–1947), Tasmanian state MP
- John T. Wright, African American politician and taxi company proprietor
- John Arthur Wright (1841–1920), Australian company manager, politician and railways commissioner
- John James Wright (1821–1904), Australian flour miller, councillor and politician
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)
“I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“From the beginning, the placement of [Clarence] Thomas on the high court was seen as a political end justifying almost any means. The full story of his confirmation raises questions not only about who lied and why, but, more important, about what happens when politics becomes total war and the truth—and those who tell it—are merely unfortunate sacrifices on the way to winning.”
—Jane Mayer, U.S. journalist, and Jill Abramson b. 1954, U.S. journalist. Strange Justice, p. 8, Houghton Mifflin (1994)