Politics
- The Right Honourable the Earl of Salisbury KG PC, 18th Century politician
- The Right Honourable the Viscount Boyd of Merton CH PC DL, Secretary of State for the Colonies 1954-9
- The Right Honourable Sir Christopher Chataway, long distance runner and Education Minister 1962-4.
- The Right Honourable Thomas Buchanan, Under-Secretary of State for India 1908-9
- Robert Key. Former Member of Parliament.
- Stanley Johnson, politician, writer, farmer and father of Boris Johnson
- Peter Oborne, journalist, author and political commentator
- David French, Chief Executive of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“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)
“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)
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)