Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician
Press conference in Saudi Arabia (21 April 1981), quoted in The Times (22 April 1981) p. 1, regarding the 1981 Irish hunger strike.
First term as Prime Minister
“An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.”
As quoted in The Quotable Politician (2003) by William B. Whitman, p. 36
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Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh
In a televised speech to the nation on the first anniversary of the parliamentary elections. http://www.dw.com/en/opposition-leader-destabilizing-the-country-bangladesh-pm/a-18171581 (January 05, 2015)
“That mysterious independent variable of political calculation, Public Opinion.”
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) English biologist and comparative anatomist
"Universities, Actual and Ideal" (1874) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE3/U-Ac-I.html <br class="br">1870s
“Nationality is the principle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy,”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/aug/09/supply-navy-estimates in the House of Commons (9 August 1848). <br class="br">1840s <br class="br">Context: The hon. Gentleman has said, in a most extraordinary manner, that our security for peace at the present day is the desire of nations to keep at home. There is a great difference between nationality and race. Nationality is the principle of political independence. Race is the principle of physical analogy, and you have at this moment the principle of race&mdash; not at all of nationality&mdash; adopted by Germany, the very country to which the hon. Member for the West Riding referred.
“Men ain’t in politics for nothin’. They want to get somethin’ out of it. p. 37”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 9, Reciprocity in Patronage
“I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics.”
George W. Bush (1946) 43rd President of the United States
2010s, 2011, Speech at the Gerald R. Ford Foundation (2011)
Context: I'm interested in politics, but I'm out of politics. You know, I like to watch it.
Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist
The Ballot or the Bullet (1964), Speech in Detroit, Michigan (12 April 1964)
Walid Jumblatt (1949) Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon
Walid Jumblatt: I Apologize to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Comparing Snakes, Whales and Wild Beasts to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=1394 (February 2007)
Kamila Shamsie (1973) Pakistani writer
Source: On how politics still seeps into peoples’ personal lives in “INTERVIEWS: Kamila Shamsie” https://bookpage.com/interviews/21570-kamila-shamsie-fiction#.Xc2ItmNKjcs in BookPage (2017 Aug 1)
Cory Doctorow (1971) Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction author
Cory Doctorow on the Open Rights Group (Time: 3:25) https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Cory_Doctorow_on_the_Open_Rights_Group.webm <br class="br">Context: As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you." And staying away from politics either because you think tech will make laws irrelevant or because there's no good way to influence laws just opens the field for people who don't cherish either of those illusions to make things very bad indeed.