Politicians
- Sir Robert Moray (or Robert Murray, 1609–1673), Scottish soldier, diplomat, natural philosopher; first President of the Royal Society of London
- Robert Maynard Murray (1841–1913), American politician and businessman
- Robert J. Murray (born 1934), United States Under Secretary of the Navy
- Robert Murray (Scottish politician) (1869–1950), British Labour Member of Parliament for West Renfrewshire, 1922–1924
- Robert Murray (died 1672), of Cameron, Scottish politician
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“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it’s because many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign—a bad sign mostly for literature.... But it is also a bad sign when they don’t want to hear the word mentioned.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)