Politicians
- John FitzGerald, 15th Knight of Kerry (1706–1741), Irish MP for Dingle
- John F. Fitzgerald (1863–1950), U.S. politician, mayor of Boston and grandfather of John F. Kennedy
- John J. Fitzgerald (1872–1952), U.S. politician
- Sir John Fitzgerald (brewer) (1857–1930), Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 1914–1915
- John Daniel FitzGerald (1862–1922), Australian politician
- John Warner Fitzgerald (1924–2006), Michigan chief justice
- Jack Fitzgerald (1873–1929), founder member of the Socialist Party of Great Britain
- Jack Fitzgerald (politician) (1914–1994), Irish Labour Party politician
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Famous quotes containing the word politicians:
“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)
“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)
“Being dismantled before our eyes are not just individual programs that politicians cite as too expensive but the whole idea that society has a stake in the well-being of children down the block and the security of families on the other side of town. Whether or not kids eat well, are nurtured and have a roof over their heads is not just a consequence of how their parents behave. It is also a responsibility of society—but now apparently a diminishing one.”
—Richard B. Stolley (20th century)