Politics
- Gerry Adams, republican political leader
- Paddy Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats
- Tony Banks, later Lord Stratford, politician
- May Blood, Baroness Blood, Labour member of the House of Lords
- Robert Bradford (Northern Ireland politician) assassinated unionist politician
- Mairead Corrigan, Nobel Laureate (Peace)
- James Craig, 1st Viscount Craigavon, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
- Reg Empey, unionist political leader
- Lord Fitt, nationalist Political leader
- Chaim Herzog, sixth President of Israel
- David McCalden, far-right activist and AIDS victim
- Mary McAleese, President of Ireland.
- Arlene McCarthy, politician
- Henry Joy McCracken, industrial and Irish politician
- Alexander Robinson
- Peter Robinson (politician), unionist political leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland
- Bobby Sands, Anti H-Block MP for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and Hunger Striker
- David Trimble, Nobel Peace Prize winner
- Betty Williams, Nobel Laureate (Peace)
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
—Cecil Parkinson (b. 1932)
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)