Politics
- Albert Edward Matthews, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
- Bill Matthews, Canadian politician
- Brenda Jones-Matthews, the mayor of the city of Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana
- Claude Matthews, governor of the US state of Indiana from 1893 to 1897
- Cliff Matthews (politician), Manitoba lawyer and politician
- Charles R. Matthews, former member of the Texas Railroad Commission
- Deb Matthews, politician in Ontario, Canada
- Francis P. Matthews
- Gabriel Baccus Matthews, Liberian politician
- Gary Matthews (politician), the current Speaker of the Montana House of Representatives
- Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, British Conservative politician and statesman
- Jim Matthews (politician), elected public official in Pennsylvania
- John H. Matthews, Canadian politician
- Joseph W. Matthews, American politician who served as Governor of Mississippi from 1848 to 1850
- Philip Bushill-Matthews, British politician and Member of the European Parliament for the West Midlands with the Conservative Party
- Print Matthews, Reconstruction-era social organizer murdered while voting
- Stanley Matthews (lawyer), Republican politician and jurist from Ohio
- William Matthews (politician), American politician
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“... privacy is ... connected to a politics of domination.”
—bell hooks (b. 1955)
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“His talk was like a spring, which runs
With rapid change from rocks to roses:
It slipped from politics to puns,
It passed from Mahomet to Moses;
Beginning with the laws which keep
The planets in their radiant courses,
And ending with some precept deep
For dressing eels, or shoeing horses.”
—Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839)