Politics
- David Thomas (New York politician) (1762–1831), American politician, Congressman from New York
- David Thomas (Texas politician) (1795–1836), American politician, signer of Texas Declaration of Independence
- David Thomas (British politician) (1892–1954), Welsh Labour politician
- David Thomas (UK politician) (born 1955), British Labour politician
- David Thomas (Welsh politician), Welsh Plaid Cymru politician
- David L. Thomas (born 1949), American politician, South Carolina state Senator
- David William Thomas (1876–1961), U.S. politician
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“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 (1732–1799)
“Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
—Herbert Marcuse (1898–1979)