Politicians
- James Wright (governor) (1716–1785), British colonial governor of the U.S. state of Georgia
- J. Skelly Wright (James Skelly Wright, 1911–1988), American judge
- James A. Wright (1902–1963), U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania
- James L. Wright Pennsylvania politician
- James R. Wright, Canadian diplomat
- Jim Wright (born 1922), U.S. Congressman from Texas, Speaker of the House
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“I’ve always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it’s because many American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)
“Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water until he had learnt to swim. If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery, they may indeed wait forever.”
—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)