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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“Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.”
—Andrew Jackson (1767–1845)
“A certain secret jealousy of the British Minister is always lurking in the breast of every American Senator, if he is truly democratic; for democracy, rightly understood, is the government of the people, by the people, for the benefit of Senators, and there is always a danger that the British Minister may not understand this political principle as he should.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
—Barbara Tuchman (1912–1989)