Government
- Robert Walker (c.1597–1673), English merchant, politician and Royalist during the English Civil War
- Robert Walker, Baron Walker of Gestingthorpe (born 1938), British law lord and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
- Robert J. Walker (1801–1869), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Polk
- Robert Jarvis Cochran Walker (1838–1903), Congressman from Pennsylvania
- Robert Alexander Walker (1916–1989), Saskatchewan lawyer and Attorney General
- Robert Smith Walker (born 1942), member of the Congress of the United States from Pennsylvania
- Robert M. Walker (born 1949), United States Under Secretary of the Army, 1997–1998
- Robert A. Walker, see Delaware's At-large congressional district
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“In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)