Politics
- Robert Young (Canadian politician) (1834–1904), Canadian politician and businessman
- Sir Robert Young (trade unionist) (1872–1957), British Member of Parliament for Newton
- Robert Young (London politician) (1891–1985), British Member of Parliament for Islington North
- Robert A. Young (1923–2007), member of the US House of Representatives
- Bob Young (mayor) (born 1947), former mayor of Augusta, Georgia, former senior executive in cabinet of President George W. Bush, former television news anchor
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“The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous.... Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.”
—Harold Rosenberg (1906–1978)
“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country—and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
—Charles Krauthammer (b. 1950)
“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)