Politics
- Robert Young (Canadian politician) (1834–1904), Canadian politician and businessman
- Sir Robert Young (trade unionist) (1872–1957), British Member of Parliament for Newton
- Robert Young (London politician) (1891–1985), British Member of Parliament for Islington North
- Robert A. Young (1923–2007), member of the US House of Representatives
- Bob Young (mayor) (born 1947), former mayor of Augusta, Georgia, former senior executive in cabinet of President George W. Bush, former television news anchor
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
—Mao Zedong (18931976)
“Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.”
—George Washington (17321799)
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)
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