Politicians
- Acton Adams (William Acton Blakeway Adams), 19th century New Zealand politician
- William Adams (British politician) (1752–1811), MP for Totnes
- William Adams (British Columbia politician) (1851–?), rancher and politician in British Columbia, Canada
- William Adams (New Zealand politician) (1811–1884), New Zealand politician
- William Henry Adams (1809–1865), British Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Boston 1857–1859
- William Taylor Adams (1822–1897), author & politician
- Billy Adams (William Herbert Adams, 1861–1954), Governor of Colorado
- William G. Adams (1923–2005), Canadian politician
- Willie Adams (born 1934), Canadian politician
- William Thomas Adams (1884–1949), British Member of Parliament for Hammersmith South, 1945–1949
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Famous quotes containing the word politicians:
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”
—Franklin Pierce Adams (1881–1960)
“Washington will ever be a city for extracurricular romance and undercover trysts, partly because of the high moral standards demanded of the politician by his constituency, and also because it is a town where women are more easily tolerated if they dabble with politicians rather than politics.”
—Barbara Howar (b. 1934)
“When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign—a bad sign mostly for literature.... But it is also a bad sign when they don’t want to hear the word mentioned.”
—Italo Calvino (1923–1985)