Counts The Votes Quotes

#1. He who votes does not have power. He who counts the votes has power.

Joseph Stalin

#2. The most important thing is who counts the votes.

Mikhail Gorbachev

#3. We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

Eugene McCarthy

#4. Agitation gives birth to creation.

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them.

Suzanne La Follette

#6. He counts votes before he decides what to have for breakfast.

John Grisham

#7. Instead of waiting for the time to get started to simply appear one day, we need to be intentional with scheduling it.

Lysa TerKeurst

#8. The big question of our time is not Can it be built? but Should it be built? This places us in an unusual historical moment: our future prosperity depends on the quality of our collective imaginations.

Eric Ries

#9. The Dalmatian tribes and the Pannonians, at least of the region of the Save, for a short time obeyed the Roman governors; but they bore the new rule with an ever increasing grudge, above all on account of the taxes, to which they were unaccustomed, and which were relentlessly exacted.

Theodor Mommsen

#10. It's a weird age. They're like, 'Amy, I'm pregnant.' And I still don't know whether to be like, 'Congratulations,' or 'Do you need a ride?

Amy Schumer

#11. When the stakes are this high- when calling God by the right name can make the difference between eternal happiness and eternal suffering, it is impossible to respect the beliefs of others who don't believe as you do.

Sam Harris

#12. If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#13. All day and all night my desire for you unwinds like a poisonous snake.

Samar Sen

#14. Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember; it's the will of the majority.

B.F. Skinner

#15. A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

Mary McCarthy