Politics
- Paul Johnson (Canadian politician) (born 1952), former MPP
- Paul Johnson (politician) (born 1959), American politician, former mayor of Phoenix, Arizona
- Paul B. Johnson, Sr. (1880–1943), American politician, governor of Mississippi 1940–1943
- Paul B. Johnson, Jr. (1916–1985), American politician, governor of Mississippi 1964–1968
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.”
—Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)
“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently.... Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.”
—Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961)
“I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)