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)
“Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self- Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“We are naïve and moralistic women. We are human beings. Who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.”
—Kate Millett (b. 1934)