Politics
- John Hayes (1643–1705), MP for Winchelsea
- John Hayes (Australian politician) (1868–1956), Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania, 1922–1923
- John Hayes (UK politician) (born 1958), British politician and MP
- John Henry Hayes (Labour politician), Member of Parliament for Liverpool Edge Hill, 1923–1931
- John Hayes (mayor), mayor of Cumberland, Maryland, 1852–1853
- John Hayes (Irish politician) (died 1706), Irish Member of Parliament, Doneraile
- Seán Hayes (Cork politician) (otherwise known as John Hayes, died 1941), Sinn Féin member of the 1st Dáil Éireann, and the 2nd and 3rd
- John Hayes (New Zealand politician) (born 1948), New Zealand diplomat and politician
- John F. Hayes (attorney) (1919–2010), Kansas attorney and former Majority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives
- John F. Hayes (New York politician) (1915–2001), Borough President of Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Johnny H. Hayes (1941–2008), Tennessee Democratic politician and fundraiser
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)
“Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to nominate a leader who’s out in front of nobody?... Maybe our national mindlessness is the very thing that keeps us from turning into one of those smelly European countries full of pseudo-reds and crypto-fascists and greens who dress like forest elves.”
—P.J. (Patrick Jake)