Politics
- Sir Richard Thompson, 1st Baronet (1912–1999), British Conservative politician
- Richard W. Thompson (1809–1900), United States Secretary of the Navy under Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877–1880
- Richard Thompson (Australian parliamentarian) (1906–1964), New Zealand-born Australian parliamentarian, businessman and Methodist Lay preacher
- Rick Thompson (born 1952), Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates
- Richard S. Thompson (1916–1997), Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives
- Richard Frederick Thompson (1873–1949), farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The newspaper reader says: this party is destroying itself through such mistakes. My higher politics says: a party that makes such mistakes is finished—it has lost its instinctive sureness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
“The average Kentuckian may appear a bit confused in his knowledge of history, but he is firmly certain about current politics. Kentucky cannot claim first place in political importance, but it tops the list in its keen enjoyment of politics for its own sake. It takes the average Kentuckian only a matter of moments to dispose of the weather and personal helath, but he never tires of a political discussion.”
—For the State of Kentucky, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)