Politics
- Rob Wilson (born 1965), British politician and entrepreneur, MP for Reading East
- Robert J. Wilson, candidate in the 1953 Manitoba provincial election
- Robert John Wilson, Member of Parliament for Jarrow
- Robert Nichol Wilson, Northern Irish politician
- Robert Patterson Clark Wilson (1834–1916), American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri
- Robert Wilson (Missouri) (1803–1870), American politician and U.S. Senator from Missouri
- Robert Wilson (politician) (born 1934), Canadian politician, expelled from the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba
- Robert Thomas Wilson (1777–1849), British general and politician
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.”
—Margaret Thatcher (b. 1925)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)