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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Famous quotes containing the word politicians:
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“Practically speaking, the opponents to a reform in Massachusetts are not a hundred thousand politicians at the South, but a hundred thousand merchants and farmers here, who are more interested in commerce and agriculture than they are in humanity, and are not prepared to do justice to the slave and to Mexico, cost what it may. I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, coöperate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens.... Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians ... have attempted to exploit it.”
—Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982)