He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

President Garfield had been assassinated by a man who believed he should have gotten a government job because of his politics.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

He became a lawyer. He moved to another northeastern state -- Massachusetts -- where he became active in Republican Party politics.

VOA: special.2010.12.23

"This competition will not be based on politics or ideology or the preferences of a particular interest group.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

Elected judges in the United States got a warning this week about money, politics and the law.

VOA: special.2009.06.12

He had ousted a group called the Tweed Ring, which controlled New York City politics for years.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

Last month, Ann Patchett spoke at Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Washington D.C.

VOA: special.2011.07.13

She was a member of one of the most famous families in American politics.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

In politics,a dark-horse candidate is someone who is not well known to the public.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

But politics is (takes) a long, long time to make any significant, long-lasting difference."

VOA: special.2010.05.09

For thirty years, he appeared on a weekly television show about American politics.

VOA: special.2009.11.01

He learned about politics from his father, William Archibald Galbraith,who was a farmer.

VOA: special.2011.05.01

Ms.Rashid was a Kurdish immigrant from Iraq with an interest in politics.

VOA: special.2011.07.30

The office gave a man very little voice or power in politics.

VOA: special.2010.08.05