Politics
- John Ferguson (New Brunswick politician) (1813–1888), merchant and Canadian senator from New Brunswick
- John Ferguson (Ontario politician) (1839–1896), physician and Canadian MP and senator from Ontario
- Sir John Ferguson (UK politician) (1870–1932), British Conservative MP for Twickenham 1929–1932
- John Ferguson (Upper Canada politician) (1756–1830), judge and politician in Upper Canada
- John Ferguson (Northern Ireland politician) (born 1911), UUP and Alliance Party politician
- John Ferguson (Australian politician) (1830–1906), Australian Senator and member of the Queensland Parliament
- John Ferguson (New York politician) (died 1832), Mayor of New York City March–April 1815
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“I think the Senate ought to realize that I have to have about me those in whom I have confidence; and unless they find a real blemish on a man, I do not think they ought to make partisan politics out of appointments to the Cabinet.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)
“They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto—God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)