Famous quotes containing the words voting and/or power:
“It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.”
—Tom Stoppard (b. 1937)
“No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man’s power is hooped in by a necessity which, by many experiments, he touches on every side until he learns its arc.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)