Government
- W. Marvin Watson (born 1924), U.S. Postmaster General
- William Watson (16th century MP), MP for the City of York
- William Watson (Australian politician) (1864–1938), Australian politician
- William Watson, Mayor of Rockford, Illinois, 1878-79
- Sir William Henry Watson (1796–1860), Baron of the Exchequer
- William McLean Watson (1874–1962), MP for Dunfermline Burghs, 1922–1931 and 1935–1950
- William T. Watson (1849–1917), American banker and Governor of Delaware
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Famous quotes containing the word government:
“The tide which, after our former relaxed government, took a violent course towards the opposite extreme, and seemed ready to hang every thing round with the tassils and baubles of monarchy, is now getting back as we hope to a just mean, a government of laws addressed to the reason of the people, and not to their weaknesses.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
“It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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